Dear computer, I love you, but maybe we need a break
OK, so over at Parenting.com today, you get a more rounded picture of just how it goes here. Busy, loca, cansada. I know: whine, whine, whine. Annoying for the blessed to be so damned whiney.
But, Maria busted me a few days ago. She told me I work too much. It hurt my heart to think she would feel slighted…or maybe she just knows how to stick it to me. Whatever the case, she got to me.
While I don’t plan a blog break or anything like that, I am focusing on working smarter, getting better organized, and eliminating some stuff from my life so that I can spend more quality time with my daughter…or just simply with my culo on the couch with a book instead of a laptop.
Kinda fabulous that it took a 5-year-old to open my eyes.
Kids say the darnest things; they are very perceptive!
She’s right, you know. I just got my reality check this week, too, in the form of exhaustion and severe dehydration. I was literally close to a coma because I was, what? too busy with my writing and “virtual” work, and with cooking, and cleaning, and momming to…drink water?? take care of myself?? Here’s to new priorities and more simple family time.
I know exactly what you mean, Carrie! Both Ana and I spend countless hours in front of our laptops, although for us is mostly when the girls are asleep. There’s no way we could get anything done if they’re around, right Ana?
Violeta, dehydration? I know what you’re talking about, hermana. That’s exactly what my Ob/Gyn – yes, I’m four months preggo – told me last week. My answer: I guess all the other things got in the way and I simply forgot to drink water! I never imagined that could be possible, qué locura!!!
I taught my eight year old how to blog and set him up on Facebook (I used to teach computer to high schoolers) so he can communicate with mostly his extended family. Now he sits next to me on his dad’s computer and we blog together. He knows how to attach a video better than I do. Good or bad? I don’t know but doing it as a family is nice.
Ladies, this week, kinder, gentler and less plugged in, si?
Cuidado…
My daugther just did that to me last week. She wants to grow up so that she can “work all night long, just like Mommy.”
(*falls over*)
Good grief.Take your break, I took mine last week.