How I have time to blog write meaningful stuff

Tuesday, May 10, 2005

35 Comments

1. The day goes like this: remind, repeat, reward, redo, rewind, rework, resort, renew.

   Isn’t that the perfect way to describe my days??

   Glad to know I’m not the only one who feels the burning need to be awake waay past what should be my bedtime

   Comment by Lindsey (May 10, 2005 @ 10:09 pm )

2. Amen, amen, amen! My hubby works a lot of hours so I’m *almost* a single mother for weeks at a time sometimes. After the kids are in bed and those final chores are done is the only time I can (1) sit, (2) think, and (3) drink a coke! - kids can’t have them so I don’t like to drink them when they’re running around. quiet time, quiet time:) I’m doing a little dance in my chair:)

   Comment by Shannon Miller (May 10, 2005 @ 11:06 pm )

3. Amy, I don’t know how I found your blog, but I did nevertheless, and lately it has become a routine of mine to check yours and a few others before I blog myself - that sounds painful doesn’t it?!. Anyway, I can’t believe you just posted an evening in my life, right down to the conversation with dear hubby about staying up too late and cheering on, err, being sad that Rob and Amber, competitors who play the game almost like I would, have lost the Amazing Race. So, now what will I blog about?! Maybe I’ll become a Limbaugh like devotee and just post a link to Humble Musings, and say an emphatic Ditto! God bless!

   Emily momy to Grace 4, Noah 3, Knox 2, and Molly 8mos.

   Comment by emily (May 10, 2005 @ 11:38 pm )

4. Me too! I’m especially tired today. I have a 9 month old (diapers to change, etc.), a 2yr old in the midst of potty training, a 5yr old who’s homeschooling emphatically (reads at 3rd grade level, and is now showing a tuned interest in math).

   Furthermore, I’m in the middle of moving to another state, and my dad is just a block away from me, dying of cancer.

   When I get a chance to sit back with QUIET I take it. If it weren’t for the peace I get from the Lord, I don’t know what I’d do at times. God is so good; I have continual peace and comfort. And even though we may be homeless for a few weeks before we get a new home, and my hubby’s jobless, I know we are already provided for.

   God bless!

   -Candy

   Comment by Candy (May 10, 2005 @ 11:45 pm )

5. I know exactly what you mean. If I go to sleep, then this all starts over again without me having had a rational thought to myself! So, I’m tired. Big deal!

   Comment by Mel (May 11, 2005 @ 12:50 am )

6. Me, too! We’ve always put our kids to bed by 8:00 pm so we can have time in the evenings. Some of the times it’s together, sometimes we’re doing our own things. Both important, I think. Even nights when I’m tired enough to crawl right in bed after them, I don’t. Pepsi and chocolate are good for these occasions!

   Comment by Carrie K. (May 11, 2005 @ 1:29 am )

7. I remember those full days of mothering. I needed the same - time to vege and separate one day from the next. Now, my children are grown up & on their on. I work part-time and still need that time after supper and before bed to “collect” myself. Yey, Rob & Amber! My 20 year old daughter said she couldn’t pull for them - said they played the game unethically. I told her it was a RACE! I have to admit I’m looking forward to watching their wedding in a couple of weeks. I’m bad!

   Comment by Evelyn (May 11, 2005 @ 6:32 am )

8. I got a chuckle out of your post, but I admit, I can’t wait until I have that problem! Being childless is lonely.

   I enjoy your blog very much!

   ladyscott

   Comment by lady_scott (May 11, 2005 @ 6:53 am )

9. Your post made me laugh. So many days, my husband will ask why are you still up. (He’s a work from home, night owl) But blogging/reading is a way for me to get me head and heart back in order. So many things happen and this is a time for me to set it all in straight again.

   Spunky

   Comment by spunkyhomeschool (May 11, 2005 @ 7:58 am )

10. i enjoyed the blog–laughed and smiled as i read it. i join the commenter who has grown kids. i remember how the evenings were so great for talking with my husband or doing projects or “just” thinking. i feel for the commenter who is lonely w/o kids. now is the time to make good friends b/c she has discretionary time like she won’t with kids. it’s interesting how hard it can be to learn contentment in our PRESENT circumstances. just when i think i have, something changes and new challenges arise. i guess that is God’s way of pushing us to trust Him more.
    i don’t like to live in the past, but those were fun years…never, never dull. the learning curve was HUGE. life has slowed down a lot but we are still learning and growing…thanks to God’s grace.

    Comment by martha (May 11, 2005 @ 8:49 am )

11. I have to ask my sweet hubby to TELL me to go to bed by 11:00pm. If not, I could stay up until 2am! My old baptist college days…yikes!
    I just want to know HOW to get my dc asleep by 8pm! I don’t think genetically they have this gene. Maybe they get it from their mama! hmmm….

    Comment by Michelle (May 11, 2005 @ 9:19 am )

12. Amy,

    How could you be rooting for Rob and Amber? While I admire their tenacity to win and how nice they are to each other compared to the other couples, I was so happy that Uchenna and Joyce won. The few times I watched I was so impressed with the way he treated his wife. So encouraging and never impatient with her. And man, could he eat! It was so honorable of him to not shirk the taxi driver at the end so they could just run to the finish line. He always treated the drivers with respect too.

    Anyway, I can relate to your late night tendencies. Unfortunately, this is when I am most tempted to watch stuff I shouldn’t be watching. Last night was one of those times. I usually go to bed regretting staying up so late.

    Blessings.

    Comment by Meredith B. (May 11, 2005 @ 10:43 am )

13. We are the opposite. I will stay up and regret it in the morning. My husband will sit at the couch to ‘read’ or ‘rest his eyes’ and be snoring within 2 minutes.

    Last night we had a designated ‘reading’ night and I opened a Keepers of the Home mag I borred about the same time he opened his To Train Up a Child and he was snoring before he turned the first page.

    I WANT to go to bed early, but then I just LAY THERE and stare at the ceiling. I MAKE myself go to bed at 10:30 so I’m a nice, productive mommy the next day.

    Comment by heather (May 11, 2005 @ 11:02 am )

14. Amy,
    I’m an empty-nester, but I can relate too. I remember those days and I’m remembering the wonder of disposable diapers happening just as my second one came on the scene. (we opted out though) I discovered that locks on bathroom doors are for moments when you not only need privacy but you need to think for a spare moment as well. Of course that happens at any time of day.

    Comment by Paula (May 11, 2005 @ 11:11 am )

15. My wife and I loved being parents of little children. But now that our kids are in their twenties, it’s nice that they can take care of their own Cheerios, thank you very much!

    Good post!

    Comment by Mark (May 11, 2005 @ 12:14 pm )

16. Amy…your blog always lifts me up…I can completely see Christ in you. I am a stay at home mom, too, of almost 3 year old twins (one disabled) and a baby who just turned one. I love your reminders of how we can glorify God in the midst of diaper changing and Cheerio vacuuming…sometimes I feel as if life is passing me by and I’m doing nothing for the Lord. Your blog reminds me that I’m exactly where I need to be! Keep it up…you inspire so many! Lynnie

    Comment by Lynnie (May 11, 2005 @ 12:21 pm )

17. What a cute post! I can’t relate. I’m an early to bed person. Mostly because I’m up very early in the morning helping dearest husband ready for work. Plus, we don’t have TV to keep us up.

    KA

    Comment by Katherine_Alba (May 11, 2005 @ 12:36 pm )

18. sigh. My kids are 9 and 5 1/2, and with no more on the way (boy does THAT sometimes make me feel inadequate in the circle of blogs in which I find myself!) we are just pulling out of that frantic stage when I am constantly being needed by some small person. Not that I’m not still busy, but I find that in between the teaching and helping and disciplining and all that, I have time to breathe, and think, and read, even during the day. However, I’ve acquired such a habit of staying up late to do these things that I still do that too. whoops.

    Comment by Rachel (May 11, 2005 @ 1:43 pm )

19. We stay up LATE LATE LATE ’round these parts.
    (Oh, such a peaceful quiet time)…

    I used to love the early mornings, but it started seeming like the earlier I woke up, the earlier THEY woke up. One patter of my feet tiptoeing down the hallway and walla–at least one little body would wake up from slumber. One waking up would trigger the rest of them to wake up (some sort of extra-sensory perception?) and there went my quiet peaceful morning.

    Comment by Molly (May 11, 2005 @ 2:28 pm )

20. I love that “rewind” poem! I have a dd 4 , dd 2 and ds 6 mths and Lord willing, more on the way (although not at this typing). And I used to be a night owl, but with three children who do not know ~ or care ~ about the art of sleeping in past 7am, I go to bed at a decent hour. Meaning before 10pm. Plus my husband and I read our bibles together at night after our offspring goes to bed and he leaves for work by 5:20am, so he goes to bed early. As for having bathrooms with locks on them, our house is a 100 years old and apartently, 100 years ago, they didn’t have the concept of locking yourself in and locking everyone else out. sigh….

    Comment by Jennifer D (May 11, 2005 @ 2:41 pm )

21. Ughhhhhhh. Rob and Ambuh? Amy, Amy, Amy. Aren’t you glad Joyce and Uchenna won? Rob and Amber already have their million

    Comment by Kelli (May 11, 2005 @ 4:11 pm )

22. I loved being the mother of young children, and I spent my nights up many, many times because I wanted to have a complete thought. It was such a precious time.

    Now that they are older, 15, 13, and 10, I enjoy being with them so much, but what is really nice is that I can say very politely: “Could you allow me to have half an hour to think quietly?” and they are so co-operative about it. When your kids get older, you look back and you think: “Man, they really did take up a lot of time.”

    Comment by Kim in ON (May 11, 2005 @ 5:02 pm )

23. My kids (4, 4 and 0) generally go to bed at 7pm, and I tooth-pick prop my eyelids open til about midnight. 5 whole hours of attempting to think a whole thought. (Sometimes, it doesn’t work, I can’t recover enough from my day to finish a whole thought even after that kids are down.) So I repeat the following night…and again…and again.

    I always regret it at 6:30am when baby wakes me up. Why do I persist?

    Comment by Sarah (May 11, 2005 @ 6:04 pm )

24. ******************************************************

    Just in case anyone was wondering if I can be an official card-carrying Prairie Muffin with a remote control in my other pocket, have no fear: The Amazing Race is over for the season, and so is our once a week TV viewing. Hey, we don’t even own videos.

    So, how could I cheer on Rob and Amber? Because they played the game the best; Rob is shrewd just like The Humble Muse. This wasn’t a Saturday afternoon tea party for the church ladies; this was war. Nobody should be surprised or cry “You can’t do that” when the enemy attacks from behind. That’s called being a sore loser. For the record, if the show didn’t rig the 7:30 gate opening the following morning and get Uchena and Joyce on that flight after the door was already shut (and they didn’t even BEG!), Rob and Amber would have won– hands down. The show was rigged. If they let Rob and Amber have the lead like they earned, there wouldn’t be a race to the end. Rob and Amber could’ve walked. And even signed autographs on the way.

    As for Rob and Amber already winning a million bucks, I say they should’ve gotten a million more. (Remember…I’m not a bleeding heart liberal.) They were the only team that showed strategy and wit. They also pumped CBS’ ratings. And for that, CBS owes them a whole lot more.

    Now, what were we talking about again???

    Comment by Amy's Humble Musings (May 11, 2005 @ 7:50 pm )

25. I totally agree with the going to bed….my son goes to bed at 9:00, and I am right behind him!! My husband wants me to stay up late, but since I have to be up for work before he does in the morning, it doesn’t happen. I go striaght to bed!!!!!

    Comment by eryn (May 11, 2005 @ 8:00 pm )

26. Rob and Amber got JOBBED! I’ve flown commercially a thousand times–and I’ve NEVER seen such accomodation afforded ANY airline passenger once the departure had been posted. Even though I was very happy that Joyce and Uchenna won–I came away thinking that the CBS fix was in. I mean, Rob and Amber’s victory was a done deal had the plane left as it was certain to do. Then, CBS would’ve have been left with 20 minutes of airing a foregone conclusion.

    Friendly Skies, my hiney

    Comment by Weets (May 11, 2005 @ 8:19 pm )

27. Wow, Johnnie Weets; for once we’re on the same page!!! :) :)!!!

    [inside joke for anyone who thinks I'm being a meanie...]

    Comment by Amy's Humble Musings (May 11, 2005 @ 8:26 pm )

28. This time of the night is very special - in a different way that spending time with my family is.

    I don’t watch the Amazing Race - Extreme Makeover Home Edition - once in a while, if I remember…I can’t blog and watch TV at the same time (or chew gum or listen to music or chase my baby or talk to my dh).

    Comment by Sal (May 11, 2005 @ 9:00 pm )

29. I totally stay awake–even when I’m exhausted! I often tell my husband that it’s the only time to do… well… that’s just it: it’s the only time to do ANYTHING. And so I stay awake. Even when I can’t.

    Glad to know I’m not the only one out there!

    Comment by brietta (May 11, 2005 @ 10:15 pm )

30. Well, I was gonna say that I stay up late so I can have a moment to think (or read zillions of blogs or whatever) but I think it’s already been said. What is absolutely astonishing is that I thought I was odd…

    Most of the mommies I talk to all hop into bed ASAP to be fresh and perky at the crack of dawn…not I.

    Comment by Bethany (May 11, 2005 @ 11:04 pm )

31. I stay up late to play computer games…there, it’s out!
    Even though #10 still wakes me in the middle of the night I usually spend at least a half hour before sleeping to empty my brain.
    My problem at night tends to be that I dwell on all the unfinished business. So right now I am using Civ3 (conquer the world!) to occupy my thoughts.
    Amy, I agree that Rob and Amber played the best game but my heart is glad that Uchenna and Joyce got the prize!

    Comment by Diane (May 12, 2005 @ 8:02 am )

32. Rob & Amber? Ai. After lying to his early “alliance” partners I decided he had to go. And I’m pretty sure that legally, the show couldn’t rig the airline thing since that could lead to a pretty good lawsuit by R&A. Joyce and Uchena got a good break, and maybe it was out of fear from the airline that they’d get bad press (the cameras were there, after all) but if the Amazing Race crew actually rigged the race I’d be surprised.

    I don’t want ‘em rigging it when my wife and I are on it someday:)

    Otherwise, RE: staying up after the kids are asleep, we feel your pain. I mean, we can empathize! You are an encouragement.

    Comment by Ron (May 12, 2005 @ 11:56 am )

33. “remind, repeat, reward, redo, rewind, rework, resort, renew”

    I love it! I’m up late every night for the same reason. I need to complete a thought, PLEASE!

    Comment by Kim (May 14, 2005 @ 1:40 pm )

34. Try doing the Cheerios thing for 23 years straight with the end still not in sight!

    I’m a night owl for intellectual reasons also, but not when I’m pregnant (like now). So I’ll have no profound thoughts to share for at least another year, when the baby is old enough for me to stay awake past 9:00 pm. See you then…

    Charlotte

    Comment by Charlotte (May 16, 2005 @ 9:04 am )

35. Oh, Charlotte, Don’t make us wait that long! Let me know when you want to pop in from time to time to be a guest blogger on my site! We need you!

    Comment by Amy (May 16, 2005 @ 1:10 pm )

RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URI

Leave a comment