"If your parents never have children, chances are you won't, either." Dick Cavett
This isn't a particularly relevant quote other than I think it's pretty ironic and my kids are partially to blame for my current blogging drought. When summer approaches, I always harbor the same misconception. I think I'm going to have so much more time to write with the kids out of school. Every year, I'm proven wrong.
How is it possible that I have less time to write than more? They're teenagers now. It's not like I have to potty-train or chaperone outdoor activities or even make them lunch anymore. They're fully functioning humans now. But somehow that doesn't matter. They are masters of distraction despite having the ability to occupy themselves. My son is practically wired to his computer and my daughter is addicted to every reality dance show on the air, yet they still sabotage any quiet time I manage to scrape together. They'll burst into my office to announce how bored they are or shout from the couch, "Mom, come here. You have to see this."
When they're not home, I'm driving them all over creation - summer classes, jobs, dance camps, friends' house, dentist appts, etc. I've managed to cut back on driving (and shrink our carbon footprint just a bit) by having my son bike to his job and class, but that still leaves the dancing queen. Her social calendar is fuller than most debutante's.
Add to that physical rehab on two shoulders (tendonitis) and a knee (surgery) and I'm booked down to the ground. What's much worse is how far ahead we are in LOST now. We're up to the fourth season already! Yes, we're addicted. Revisiting season one is going to be a challenge given all the new character revelations to which I've been exposed.
Somehow I'll manage. I'm just not sure when. Family's coming to town this weekend. Birthdays are stacking up. School shopping is not far behind. It will be September before we know it. Thank God.
Hopefully I will be back before then, but since my parents decided to have children...well, you can fill in the rest.
