Back To Schedules

I love summer! No…like, I really love summer! I love everything about it. I love the heat, the beach time, the pool time, my kids being home, no schedules, late nights, sleeping in later than 5:30am, family trips, late night swims in the backyard, tan skin, just absolutely everything—I love it! However, there is one thing I love more…that feeling of getting back on schedule when school starts. As much as I love the freedom of no schedule, our lives just simply run better with a schedule. Everything absolutely makes more sense. So, here we are, back on schedule and slowly getting used to our routines and feeling better already. 

I thought about writing and blogging all summer, but every time I tried to sit at my computer to write, the joyful (or not so joyful) sounds of my kids interrupted my brain and made it impossible for me to focus or even complete a simple thought—don’t judge! My home office is right inside the front door and completely open to the rest of the house, no privacy and no doors. Plus, it is open to the upstairs game room where my children fight; I mean play. The sounds and echoes that land in this room actually silence my brain and completely short-circuit my thoughts. Hence the lack of posting from me all summer.

Let me just say, I have more words to share than most people say in a year. Just because I am not actually typing my posts, doesn’t mean I am not blogging in my head…non-stop. My poor husband has been forced to hear way to many words this summer so if I don’t get back to blogging soon, his brain may explode. I think I need to invest in one of those little recorders like I used in college to record my professors, so I can speak my posts when I do not have the ability to type them. This little device may very well save my marriage, or at least my husbands brain.

I wish I could remember all of the posts I came up with this summer. So many wonderful thoughts have been lost by the lack of retention in my aging brain. Let me just assure you, I am certain that the lost posts could have solved all of the world’s problems. I even found myself dreaming of blogging and writing words, only to wake up and have lost them all. This makes me sad, but ultimately just fills my head with more words that need to be shared.

Today, regardless of it being the weekend and my kids all being home, my brain decided I had to get all of these words out before it explodes. So here I am, sitting at my desk, trying to ignore the sounds of The Lego Movie (while softly humming “Everything Is Awesome”), typing all of my words hoping they find all of you getting used to your schedules and enjoying your brain function slowly beginning to return to its normal state. I have approximately 800 posts in my mind at this very moment so this could take a while. 

     So here it is, my office.  As you see on the right, that is my front door, which leads to the wide open space which is my office.  Also, notice on the left, the vast openness leading upstairs.  At the top of those stairs is our game room where my children play...LOUDLY. Just beyond the stairs on the main level is our living room where the TV is almost always on. So now you have a visual of why my brain doesn't function while the family is home.  Prayers are welcomed, infact, they are encouraged!