Hi y’all.
I know. I haven’t blogged in about 500 years. That might be an exaggeration, but you get what I’m talking about. It’s been a while, a long while. So long, in fact, that each time I’ve sat down to actually write, I couldn’t. After almost five months of silence, how do I get started again? And why has it taken so long to get something down?
As Ben just said, “You haven’t done blogs in a long, long time Mommy because you’ve been writing papers.”
You all know that I’ve been plowing away at my School Psychology degree for about six years now (since pregnancy with Nicholas!). The end is near…I’ve been on practicum, which is 75 hours in a school over the course of a semester, but roughly 56 gazillion hours work at home. Or at least that’s what it feels like. Listen, go hug your the school psychologist in your school (and for that matter, your child’s teacher, specialist, principal, administrative assistant, TSS, OT, PT, SLP….). Go hug them right now!! They work hard. Really, really hard. And they don’t get hugged enough.
To say that this practicum has taken over my life would not really be an exaggeration. There’s a life/work balance that I have yet to achieve. And, having been at home with my boys for the past seven years (the best thing I could have ever done!), the return to working outside the home, paid or not, has been tough. In my evaluation, my supervisor (who is a rock star!) wrote that I needed to learn to set boundaries to avoid burnout. She wasn’t kidding. My semester is done, but I’m staying on the job until the end of the school year. There’s more to learn before I hit internship next fall. But, good Lord, it is a lot of work.
And there’s a lot to learn on the home-front too. Like dealing with guilt. And time-management. And prioritizing too. Oh, and learning to say no, and being okay with that. Yeah. That might be the toughest lesson of all. I’m not there yet. I’m learning to deal with the things that are going to slip (like a clean house)…but, frankly, there are days when I feel like I am drowning. Mommies who work full-time, part-time, sometimes, from home, volunteer…throw me the life-preserver! What’s your best advice?
What else has slipped? Blogging. I
But, I’m trying to get back to it. Because, I already feel like time is flying by, and well, I need to remember where we’ve been and what we’ve done.
In that spirit, here’s a little of what’s been going on the last few months, courtesy of my Facebook status posts. Honest to goodness, how would I ever know the news without Facebook? For my friends on FB, skip to the end. Otherwise, here’s a little of the last four months in my world.
January 15 - First day of practicum done and Nicholas says, "Mommy, are you a psychologist yet?" No buddy...not yet!
January 25 - Fun on the slopes this morning with my biggest ski-monkey!
January 31 - Pierre showed the boys a documentary on the Titanic today. Tonight, they were chatting with each other, from their bedrooms across the hall, in Morse Code.
February 6 - My sons are so complimentary today...
Ben: Mommy, you should buy that Meaningful Beauty stuff from the T.V. commercial so you can be as beautiful as Cindy Crawford.
And later...
Nicholas: Mommy, you smell like hair.
February 16 - Dressed like he is 100 to celebrate the 100th day of school.
February 27 - My little scientists!!
March 2 - Ready for Hat Day tomorrow!
March 16 - They didn't catch the Leprechaun, but he left them a few surprises!
March 22 - Space Shuttle Discovery at the Air & Space Museum!
March 24 - Ben's an orange belt!
March 28 - Just told Ben that he sounded like a broken record, and he had no idea what I was talking about. He also didn't know what a record is. I feel old.
March 29 - We bought Ben new shoes this weekend...they're a little snug, but I can wear them (I’ll add in…that is really scary. He’s seven!)!!
April 1 (My PSA) - Going to share a pet peeve for a minute...
If you see a school bus, lights flashing, stop-sign out, waiting for children at an intersection then please, please STOP!
In fact, stop behind the row of cars letting kids out to run for the bus. You don't need to roll, however slowly, to the corner. Don't worry. You'll get to the intersection. What's the hurry?
About a month ago, Ben was almost hit by a car that just couldn't wait and wasn't looking as Ben flew out of the van to catch the bus. Now, I get out of the van first.
Please, help out your neighborhood parents by waiting behind the row of cars as our children get to their school bus. It'll take you an extra minute, but it might just save a life.
April 8 - So, the boys and I missed the bus this morning....while parked at the bus stop. Hmmm...
April 9 - I'm Batman.
April 12 - Listening to a bedtime troll story from Grandpa.
April 15 - Ben's been writing messages on bananas. At least he's practicing his writing.
April 21 - Just found my first tick of the season (on Nicholas!). As much as I love Spring, I'm not so fond of ticks.
April 23 - Nicholas: "Mommy, do you know how to tell if someone is Canadian or not? It's all in their voice."
April 25 - I just had to kiss the Millennium Falcon goodnight. Yes, I have boys.
Even these statuses are a little sparse. I’d like to say that I’ll write more often, but I can’t make promises that I don’t know if I can keep. In the meantime, it feels good to be getting ‘out there’ again. I hate the silence of the last four or five months. How much did I miss?
Seriously, advice!! Share it, write it, I need it! Mommies of the world, I have so much to learn from you!
Be back soon.
xo Naomi
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