Holding It Together

[ 2 ] July 3, 2009 | Amanda

This post isn’t meant to garner sympathy at all. It’s just meant to be informative because if other bloggers and blog readers are like me, they’re slightly nosey. Let’s face it, my blog has sort of sucked lately. The posts have barely been cohesive, and I haven’t been posting every day like I was. I thought I’d be able to keep up the rhythm I had going once school let out, but I was wrong.

School let out in June, and I gave you a glimpse into what’s been going on in my head. I have some giveaways that I’m behind in posting, and I need to get those up ASAP as well. It’s just been easier to sit an do a quick stream of consciousness post for 15 min and post rather than the hour or 2 it takes to do a review and/or giveaway post. And I’ll bet you’re sitting there reading and thinking “2 hours? WTF? Why so long?” Well, by the time you write a nice and coherent post, add in the pictures and links, and then promote it, you’ve spent a good 2 hours in front of the computer. And that’s just the day it goes live. If it’s a giveaway, other blogs host linkys where you can post and promote your giveaways. There is at least one every day of the week if you can remember to post it and who’s hosting on what day. Sometimes it gets so overwhelming I just shut down. It’s a thing of mine I need to overcome.

Then I’m trying to co-launch a new support site for parents of kids with various syndromes, disorders, etc. Stefanie and I are trying to make a better version of The SPD Life. It’ll be launching just as soon as we get it all pretty and the bugs worked out.

Ironically through all of this, Zach’s oppositional defiant disorder has reared it’s head in its ugly form and I’ve been dealing with that more intensively. It takes away from what working computer time I had carved out for myself. Again, you may be saying “But I’ve seen you online. We’ve chatted/e-mailed/facebooked.” Yes, we probably have. The computer is right here in the living room. I often sit here and scrapbook, hang on the forums, or surf while the boys play and don’t want me to join in with them. It keeps me from falling asleep from the mundane kids’ shows since there have often been times I cannot leave Zach alone in the same room as his brother lately. I can’t make my 2yo follow me around the house as I do my household chores, and it’s not worth the battle of making Zach do it. That’s part of the ODD child – choosing your battles. I can chat, converse in an e-mail, and do other things that don’t take a tremendous amount of concentration when the boys are awake. Even writing a blog post these days is like trying to determine the theory of relativity for me with my fibromyalgia flaring up. The boys and I have had to go shopping every day this week because I keep forgetting things we actually need at the store – and I have a list.

So, if you’re a skimmer and find yourself now at the bottom, I think I’m going to quit beating myself up if I don’t post to my blog every day. I’m going to buckle down and get caught up on the things I need to, and then let the summer take its course. If you stumble on my blog and like what you see, please subscribe or follow me. Then you won’t miss out when I do post since it may not be daily anymore.

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Tammy says:

July 3, 2009 at 2:37 pm

I can relate. I have two kids and one is autistic. I have less time that I can spend on the computer now that I have both kids home.
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Cat@3KidsandUs says:

July 3, 2009 at 5:53 pm

Definitely don't beat yourself up for taking a breather. Blogging is suppose to be fun and when it becomes a chore we all need a little break.