I'm no weekend blogger

 I'm not a fly-by-night one either

I really do try to keep up with you.  But sometimes, I become overwhelmed and can't do it.  If you're one who keeps your blog to journal about your personal life, I work hard to follow along.  I remember your names and everyone around you.  And if I miss one episode(blog post), I get worried that I missed something big.  I feel, if you are going to reveal yourself to me, I'd be an awful friend(blogger friend) not to pay attention.

Perhaps if you started each post with "Previously on...." I could keep up.  During the week, I'm do pretty well with following you.  But when the weekend comes, I'm "The Biggest Loser".  Monday through Friday(like right now) comes with schedules.  But Saturday and Sunday are all over the place.  Well, Saturday mornings are pretty busy with cleaning and organizing the house.  This Saturday was especially busy since I went through the kid's clothes.  Come Noon, I was beat.  We have down-time but Johnny wanted to go out.  I told him that if he went out, not to come back until 2:30.  I know, that does sound rough, but I needed to rest and not have John and his friends walking all through the house making noise.  The little ones were hanging out here in the Family Room and I went upstairs.  I actually took a 1.5 hour nap.  It was heavenly.  After that, I took the kids on a hike on a local trail.  Before you knew it, it was time for supper, showers, a quick show and then bedtime.

I went to Mass(by myself) on Sunday morning.  It was peaceful.  I liked it.  Back home, set the table and Fred had dinner ready by Noon.  My Friend Melissa called to see if I wanted to go hiking with her and her kids around 3PM.  I did.  We rested and then went hiking.  At 5 o'clock, I sat down here on the computer and opened my Google Reader to see what you've been up to.  I commented on two blogs and then gave up.  Don't hate me but I Marked As Read, 97 posts.  It was horrible and refreshing all at the same time.  There was no way that I was going to spend Sunday night on the computer.  I just couldn't do it.

As mentioned, there are schedules during the week and that leaves me with known time to visit you.  But the kids have a lot of free time on the weekends and I give all I have to them.  As it is, I spend a lot of time blogging.  I used to post three or four times a week.  And when I had my photo blog, it was every single day. I can't do it.  My time doesn't belong to me.  Perhaps in 10 years or so but certainly not now.  If you can stay with me that long, I promise to bombard you with daily posts come 2020 or so.  But for right now, I can only do a couple of posts a week.  Remember what I told you before?  You can have it all, just not all at the same time.  I'm trying to live by my own words.

Right now, I do tons of things with my children and take millions of photos of our domestic adventures.  My only regret is that because I want to keep this blog timely and I can't keep up, you'll never see most of those photos and I'll never have time to journal for the kids to read in the future.  It's my own struggle.  And writing it right now is my way or working through it.  But don't worry, it's all cool!

I really appreciate you reading though my thoughts on this Monday night.  Fred has the kids right now and they are out shopping for something.  I don't even ask any more.  Here's something funny.  During my last post, I lost a Follower.  I used to get so upset when that would happen.  I know, it's ridiculous but I'm being honest with you.  Anyway, I'm not sure who it was or what I said to piss them off.  I noticed it but I no longer care.  See, I'm making progress!  Baby steps, people.

My intention this weekend, while hiking with the kids, was to take hundreds of photos of Autumn Leaves and then put them into a video/slide show.  But because of the snow a couple of weeks ago, our beautiful leaves  fell quickly and really, all I could fine, were the last remaining in the photos above.

See you soon.
Your Friend, m.