So Much For Starting Out Right

My goal for this blog in 2009 was to post at least three times a week. It's been a week and two days since my last post so how do *you* think I'm doing? Yeah - me too. *sigh*

Though I am going to offer up the excuse of a child undergoing medical tests for significant and unexplained weight loss and the stress that is evident in this house. I'll even add to that excuse a leaking ceiling and meeting with roofers and the siders as we try to figure it out.

Not enough? Man - you are a tough crowd. Fine. I'll even add an unexpected vehicle repair *and* a broken windshield to the pot.

Does that get me off the hook a little bit? Yeah - I figured not. That's ok - I should be held to a higher standard when it comes to reaching my own personal goals. I get that. And I forgive you for being so cold-hearted about it. :) :)

So what can I amuse you with today? The fact that my child is watching Imagination Movers and playing with her dollhouse, alone, in the other room while her mommy sits at the computer trying to come up with something worthwhile to write about to amuse you? What about the laundry basket full of clothes needing to be folded and put away sitting next to me on the kitchen table? The kitchen floor that is so filthy with muddy paw prints that it makes me want to scream? Maybe the carpet that is in dire need of steam cleaning to remove the muddy from those same doggy paws? (Hey - it's not like I don't try. I wipe their feet at the door and there is a trail of throw rugs that lead from the sliding door all the way to the carpet which should, in theory, remove the mud but that, in reality, fail.)

What about telling you all about the dishes in the dishwasher that need to be put away?

Maybe I should just share with you how delicious this big ol' cup of coffee that is sitting in front of me smells as the steam wafts up. Maybe I should tell you how I will probably not clean the carpets this week....maybe not even next (though I will run the vacuum to pick up what I can. I'm not *that* terrible of a housekeeper). I'll get to the laundry and the dishes and I'll probably even go play yet another game of Cinderella's Enchanted Slipper with my daughter (which I will confess to not really being a hardship. It's actually kind of fun and perfect for my almost 4 year old daughter. We play it as a family and I have to tell you on the QT; even my son has a good time. Don't tell him I told you though. Hee hee.). She got it from an aunt for Christmas and it's so much fun! I highly recommend it. Plus when you push in the glass slipper it either makes Fairy God Mother twinkling sounds or chimes like a clock. Bad news for you, Cinderella, if it chimes like a clock! :)

Anyway - I guess the upshot is that instead of sitting here telling you all I should be doing I should go do it.

And now my daughter has come to me asking to make s musical harp. Oh sure honey - that sounds easy enough. *sigh* Wonder how I'll accomplish this one.

Wish me luck!