The Negligent Mommy

On second thought ...

Okay, so I kind of have this totally inappropriate crush on Robert Pattinson, who played Cedric Diggory in the Harry Potter movies and who plays Edward (swoon) in the movie version of the novel Twilight.  He's tall and dark haired and has these really intense eyes and ... well, to borrow a phrase from the book, he is exactly my brand of boy-man heroin.  (Sorry, Michael Phelps, but you had to know we were doomed.  Your ears stick out too much and I can't swim for crap.)

And then he showed up in public looking like he does in the picture below, and I'm kind of thinking ...

 

Um, yeah.  Maybe not so much on the crush thing today.

I'll have a double tall caramel machiato, extra crazy, please.

 

Sleep is so overrated.

The kind of day that makes the other days worthwhile.

So this morning, Andy announced that he planned to serve in the altar at church, instead of standing with me in the choir complaining about his legs hurting and running off to the bathroom every five minutes.  Then Owen announced that he was going to be with me "and stand in the choir and not sing," instead of perusing monster truck books and refusing to stand during the important bits.*  And then--here's the really crazy part--they actually did those things (Owen even gave another singer a hug when she sneezed).  And then we all had a nice lunch together at coffee hour. 

And then Owen went to a party and Andy played with his friends from down the block.

And then we all went to a nice dinner (where, while waiting for our food, Andy practiced his cursive and Owen did a word search) and to Barnes & Noble, where each picked out a book and spent the entire ride home reading them.

I think my kids may have been replaced by alien pod-children.

And I have to tell you, I'm cool with that.

*Orthodox Christians stand to worship to the extent we are able, but at a minimum, barring serious illness or disability, during certain portions of the service, such as the Gospel reading.

In which I confess my general patheticness*

Okay, y'all, looking back I realize I've been averaging one blog post a month for a while now, and it's mid-October, so I need to get on the stick.  So here you go, October's blog post.

Okay, I can do better than that.  Although really, I feel kind of obligated to put a picture into each post, just to keep things interesting  less uninteresting than they might otherwise be, but that can be tough because it involves multiple steps that begin with "find the damn camera", involve "find the damn USB cord" somewhere in the middle, and end with "find the damn picture file."  Not to mention the whole picture thing.

So, anyway, I've been insanely busy.  Which I realize is no excuse, because all the other bloggers out there are insanely busy too. But I've been thinking lately about the things that I've been missing since I've been so busy, and blogging was fairly high on the list (although I will confess that it comes after "cook an actual meal for my family", which comes after "see my actual family").

So, I'm going to try to blog more, because I really think the world can benefit from my navel-gazing.

I *have* been knitting, and while the kids are watching Tom and Jerry, I'm going to block a baby blanket.  If I can find the damn camera, I might even post a picture!

*"Patheticness" is too a word!