I know I've mentioned it before, but I started a new daily routine back when school started and I think it's the best schedule I've ever had because our home seems to be running more smoothly than it has in a long time.
But it hasn't left much time for blogging.
I don't want to give up my beloved bloggy hobby completely--but I haven't quite figured out how to do the blog on a consistent basis with my new routine. Thus, I continue to be sporadic.
Every morning, I stumble out of bed at 6am and make a bee-line toward the microwave to whip-up some Earl Grey for Cole and myself. During this little ritual, Cole wakes the kids up, coerces Tru into the shower and gets Emma started on the piano. By the time I hand Cole his tea, he's sitting in front of the computer perusing the headlines at msnnbc.com.
Immediately upon serving the tea, I start breakfast. This is a first for our family as I've never been a big breakfast eater. As a kid, my mom was always gone by breakfast time and I learned to fix for myself some sort of instant breakfast drink to sip upon while waiting for the school bus.
Some habits die hard.
A light breakfast really worked well with my old routine, but this summer, I started feeling an urge or a conviction, or SOMETHING, that I needed to start fixing a full-fledged breakfast for my kids every morning. I just sort of got the idea that if we actually sat down at the table before school every morning (instead of the "everyone-fend-for-yourself-there-are-eleven-selections-of-breakfast-cereal-in-the pantry" kind of breakfasts) that our mornings would run more peacefully. And lo and behold, they really have. The difference has been amazing.
In addition to slingin' hash every morning, I have simultaneously started a new little laundry-while-I-work-on-breakfast routine and you wouldn't believe it, but I think I've been caught up with my laundry since August the 25th. I won't go into all of the particulars, (since you're probably already yawning) but I just want to say that my ironing pile is completely empty at the moment and no one has had to go pilfering through the sock basket in weeks. I also start cooking supper while I'm fixing breakfast which is something I've been doing for a couple of years now. If you've never been in the habit of starting your supper prep in the morning, I highly recommend it.
Anyway, I was sayin'...
In addition to all of that new morning routine stuff--Ava's homeschool has become a lot more intense this year. We start her piano practice at 8 o'clock on the dot, as soon as the older kids go tumbling down the stairs to head for the van. (Their daddy always deals with that little circus. Smile.) We practice for 30 minutes and then we segue right into math. As soon as the math lesson concludes, it's time to wake baby Julianna up and start the real fun of trying to finish all of Ava's lessons for the day while trying to entertain Toilet Baby. (Today she emptied half of the contents of the kitty litter box, dumped all of the music out of the piano bench and tried to throw Cole's cell phone into the toilet. Fun.)
So while I don't want to give up blogging altogether, I just really don't have my blogging groove goin' this year. Last summer, I would blog late at night after the kids had gone to bed--but that was before I became The Sunrise Chef.
Speaking of breakfast, morning will be here before we know it, so I'd better get to bed.
But I'll keep looking for that bloggin' groove. I know I'll find it... eventually.
