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Life in Narration

I constantly think about posting on my blog. My kids are so cute and funny. We constantly are going places and seeing amazing things. My husband and I are overly opinionated and boy could I write about any political issue or person if I really felt like it. Most of all, I feel like my mind is always in constant narration.

Regardless of all the reasons why I should write more, there is one big reason why I do not.

Don't get me wrong, Charlie is awesome but come on! He is not even 6 months old and he sits up, crawls, fusses because he can't get to Daniel and Alice fast enough, refuses to eat cereal or any other baby food, won't drink from a bottle, already has one tooth and most of the time hates Jason. Now sure, him not being on a set schedule is my fault, as I never live life in any sort of organized way. (I do try it just never works out.) But Charlie often drives me crazy.

Then when he isn't driving me crazy these two are:

Oh well right? It sure is an adventure having a family. This month my goal is to organize my desk/mail area. Which I would say is going great except I am staring at the last suitcase from our Disneyland trip to be unpacked.

I have decided to do something with my talents and am starting music classes at my house. Piano lessons for beginners and group music lessons for 3-5 year olds. I think I might add a kindergarten kids class because I just realized that though Alice will be home for one of the classes Daniel will not and he would love it. Anyone else got a kindergartener who wants to come? More info on that is located here: musicalmelanie.weebly.com

I can't believe how fast time flies. Hopefully it will not be another 3 months before I post again.

Comments

Natalie Ockey said…
Awesome! I think you'll have a lot of fun teaching music.
Kara said…
I totally understand! My Esther was like Charlie in almost every way you described including hating Chris and it was torture! And when you're not dealing with that you always have the older ones to remind you why you're crazy. :) I'm dreading having another baby and potentially dealing with all of that again plus 4 other kids - aaahhh!! Time definitely does blur by and it seems like all the things we want to accomplish never happen so good job posting and good luck surviving! :)

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