Sunday 13 December 2009

Where's the pause button please?

It's been TWO weeks since I blogged. Where on earth has that gone?  It's not that I've got nothing to say, not at all, almost daily I think 'ooh, I could do a post about...', and I've actually even taken to geekishly scribbling ideas down sometimes (s'what proper writers do, apparently), it's just that I simply haven't had time to sit at the laptop long enough or with enough brain power to actually formulate thoughts and sentences.  Even my beloved twitter has been neglected - that my friends, is the sign of a busy mummy!

And I shouldn't complain, because aside from a few really gruesome teething days, it's generally good stuff keeping me busy ( like my shiney new Xplory!! {whole 'nother post in the making}, Christmassy planning, lots of coffee dates, a couple of nights out with the daddy, meeting up with Bec & Kelly & their boys for festive fun, putting up the Christmas tree today... allsorts of goodies), but the last couple of weeks really have left me feeling like I need a time out. A day or two to myself to just chill out & catch up with the seven million and three things that need my attention. And before you all shout Duh! You're a mum now, never gonna happen! I do know it's not - but wouldn't it be nice if life did come with a pause button?

Everything could just stop. Just for a while. Long enough to drink a hot cup of tea without having to change a nappy, or dispense teething aids, or run interference between increasingly mobile baby & dog bowl. Just enough time to actually cross a few things off the perpetual to-do list and remember that smug feeling of accomplishment.  Wouldn't that be brilliant?

But of course, in real life, we just have to keep going.  And going. And I know this all sounds a bit whiney, and it really wasn't supposed to, but I guess it's the sleep deprived tiredness taking it's toll, and the niggly stupid cold/cough deelie that's been bugging me for far too long now. I just feel all a bit run down and overwhelmed. I've lost my neurotic mojo. I'm disorganised & nowhere near on top of things. And I don't like it.

Still, tomorrow is a whole new week. We're officially counting down to Christmas. I can get back on top of my game, and damn it, I will!  Because I am a mummy, and that is what mummys do. 

Bring it on.

6 comments:

  1. Oh a pause button would be wonderful. Life doest get kind of Hectic on the build up to christmas, there is not enough hours in the day!!

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  2. Oh I so know this feeling. But we will all get there, somehow. (We are rather hurtling towards the big day though, aren't we??) I have found that one or two things are starting to slide - but as you say: brand new week and off we go!

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  3. Nuts isn't it! Nothing prepares you for that relentlesss rollercoaster/treadmill! And those without urchins simply do not know!
    You'll get on it buddy, we Mums have an amazing capacity for coffee and achieving the extra hour in the day?
    xxx

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  4. I've been exactly the same lately! There's something about this time of year isn't there?! But I do love the hustle and bustle of Christmas (and mummyhood of course!) even if it does eat into my blogging time x

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  5. Perhaps Santa could bring you an extra hour for each day?

    I am very glad that you made time in your busy life to see us in real life last week :)

    Hope that your first Christmas with LD is amazing. I want to see photos of him as a reindeer :)

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