- I love the bullet point. Note that I’m becoming increasingly obsessed with it in my blog postings. It just works, you know? I went through a similar phase with the semicolon in university. A teaching assistant (“Rob” from Literary Theory taught by the divine Gary Wihl, McGill circa 1995) actually took me aside to address my punctuation obsession.
- Do you think that women get competitive about how many children they have? I think they do. In fact, I was in a meeting recently, and one mom repeatedly emphasized the higher value of her contributions with the preamble statement, “Well, I have four kids and…..”. It’s quality not quantity, sister.
- I have no energy after 6pm and I don’t know what to do about it. To make matters worse, it’s the time between 6 and 8 that is so labour-heavy with the kids. Dinner, bath, bedtime…so much to do. Lately, I’ve been bailing on reading to them before bed and then consumed with guilt about it. Ugggh.
- I went for a haircut, and my stylist told me that my head is covered with hundreds of new “baby hairs”. These new hairs now make me look like I have really short, weird pseudo-bangs. Gross and strange. The product of many months/years of pregnancy and nursing. Who knew that having kids would pull this number on my body??
- I don’t know how I feel about the new show, Flash Forward. On one hand, it kind of fills in the sci-fi, adventure void left by Lost’s departure this season. I like Joseph Fiennes, though I only remember him from Shakespeare in Love. But I’m not sucked in, or captivated like I thought I would be. It’s just kind of okay.
Yes, I know. It’s me again. Just had to let you know that I felt so inspired after your bullet post that I had to write one of my own. I linked to you in the post (at Crumbs); hope that’s okay!
* I, too, love the bullet.
* Yeah, well I have three kids and… I’m still a crazy mess! LOL!
* My recommendation for the 6pm slump is a big glass of water and putting the song “Say, hey I love you” by Michael Franti on in the kitchen while I cook.
* I think you should use the baby hair to your advantage and bring back elements of the 80s punk look. 😉
* Watched Flash Forward once but couldn’t get into it either. Of course, the only thing I seem to catch on the telly these days is Craig Ferguson’s monologue at 12:35am every night…so sad!
Great random points, Amreen. Now you’ve got me thinking about what to make for dinner tonight so I don’t have to decide at 6pm in the throes of the dreaded slump!
There was a study done on office workers, who laboured late in the day to maintain energy. Half were given a cup of coffee and the other half was given a glass of water. The water group was much more productive, so maybe chug a litre at 5pm and see what the evening holds?
ah, baby hairs. just when you thought your body was done doing strange things! 🙂 as for witching hour, just keep your head down and plow on through. books are always good. my oldest is 6 1/2 and can read to herself! that’s so cool and makes a lot of things easier for me (now I sound like one of ‘those’ mothers! ha!)
We’ve definitely gone up and down many times with the reading thing. There is also value in them looking at books themselves, even if they can’t read the words. My daughter loves to make up her own story!
I know one thing, women get competitive about their kids period. Whether it be about how many, how smart, how athletic, how sweet, how talented, sleeping, eating, grades. The list is too long!
ahh, i love these suggestions. lorid and kath, i’m sending you virtual hugs. i’m definitely going to read novels and feel no guilt because I’m contributing to their development! and, a bedtime story during supper is perfect. thanks! let me know your thoughts on flash forward. i’m also watching the good wife. so far, it’s okay.
I think the love of the semicolan is much more forgiveable than the love of the exclamation point! Hee.
(Some) women definitely get competitive about the number of children. One child makes you a mother, and a mother is a mother. Quality over quantity, indeed.
Don’t sweat the reading thing – you’ll get back into it. Sometimes I’ll read to them when dinner is cooking and call that their bedtime story, even though bedtime is technically still 2 hours away!
We watched the first episode of Flash Forward and have recorded the rest to watch all at once (or at least all in one week or two).
Amreen, I have gone through lots of stages of just not being able to read to my kids at bedtime myself. Treat yourself well so that you can have more energy during the “witching hour” and lean on your hubby for support, too. And don’t sweat the reading hiatus: I once read a study showing that reading TO your children was a less strong predictor of their later success in life than seeing YOU read, yourself. So maybe you just need to sit down with a novel at 6pm, and let the hubby cook; after all, you’ll be helping your kids!
(note the lovely use of the semicolon above)