Another morning breaks upon my house and another mommy battle is won. The breakfast battle. I started this nasty little habit when my children were born of cooking a well-rounded, nutrious breakfast. Now that I have two children (one who likes eggs and one who doesn’t, one who likes sausage, one who demands bacon – do you see where this is going?) plus the “ugh” of early pregnancy, I just don’t feel like cooking breakfast right now. The girls were so indoctrined in the cooked breakfast that a poptart would not suffice. I had scrambled myself into a hour long preperation before our day really started and it was wearing me thin before 8am. I have finally, through weeks of pyschological warfare, converted them to the all powerful bowl of breakfast cereal. It’s still packed full of vitamins and “healthy junk”, but it has got the ease of a convienent little box poured into a bowl in 45 seconds flat. LOVE IT! Yeah, I know all about the sugar thing but seriously…there is nothing like a little sugar to start their day that has them smiling and laughing like a fried egg with bacon smiley face never did.

I now sit here typing (with no alluring smell of cooked bacon clinging to my hair) while my children giggle their way through capturing floating Fruit Loops and declare that this woman…

no longer exists in my house before the dew has dried up from the lawn. It is such a freeing feeling. Thank you Kellog’s for freeing the bonds that shackled me in the early morning hours.

Now to the subject of the week long blogging break that I had taken. I would love to tell you that I went high on that mountain in search of answers, peace and a special message; but the truth is that I was in a writing funk. To be totally truthful, I was feeling overwhelmed by all the new blogging “carnvials” that I was involved in. Sure the writing prompts were great and really made me have to sit and focus before I began writing…but it was too much “writing inside the box” for me to deal with. I lost my freedom for writing and a lot of my joy in writing as well. This blog was designed to allow myself to share my moments at home and share pictures with my family. It was never intended that I would have 80+ visitors a day (Frankly trying to write in a way that was pleasing to all those people and keep them coming back was stressful to say the least) That being said, there is still some of the blog carnivals out there that I will participate in, but I am going to go back to my old ways of blogging. Blogs written for myself. Thank you to all the original, old timers that kept coming back and thank you for all the personal messages encouraging me to go back to my fun loving, sarcastic ways.

Categories: children, Domestication, General Junk, home life, kids