Just Thinking Aloud
Silence.
It’s all around me right now and boy oh boy is it divine.
S is napping, and the boys are at the ‘THEATER’. That’s what I was told anyway when they begged for popcorn and the fishing chairs from the attic. Z got a video camera for Christmas and they are going to watch our life on tape.
Sounds thrilling. Glad I didn’t have the 50? he is charging to see it. Atta boy Z – tape your brother picking his nose and then charge him money to watch it. Make your mama proud. egads.
At least I get a moment or two for myself. With 5 kids, those moments rarely happen. I should be starting dinner. Or folding clothes. Or making a half-ass attempt at purdying myself up – it IS New Year’s after all.
But instead I sit here. Fascinated by this thing called they call a blog – and wondering how long it will take until the word borg stops popping into my head every time I say it. Guess I’m not as hip as I thought. I’ve spent the better part of the day lost in world of strangers and their blogs(borg). This could create a problem. I have enough addictions as it is.
Why is it that we are so intrigued with the lives of others? People we wouldn’t know if they slapped us upside the head? Never mind – I know why. Well, for me anyway. Made me feel incredibly normal today reading those blogs(borg). And I haven’t felt normal in – well, I’ve never felt normal. Not as a mom anyway. Or as a woman for that matter.
Too strong/too outspoken/too unwilling to ‘adapt’/too uptight when it comes to the kiddos/too relaxed when it comes to the kiddos/too emotional/too cold/too bitchy/too selfish/too giving/too soft/too hard/too real
But I am all those things. And today I found out that there are others like me.
And that made me smile.
Thanks Nancy.
