Procrastination: It's where it's at.

Fall. The busiest time of year for overachieving moms and children. Starting in July, we are frantically registering our kids for this and that. Swimming, soccer; sign us up! Art class? Hell yeah! Girl Scouts? Cookies, duh! Whether you are a member of the #fourkidsclub or not, that first falling leaf and autumnal chill in the air every year means one thing: 7+u8 (give or take) hours of freedom from our beloved darlings. And because being in school all day until 4 isn't enough, we feel all sorts of pressure to fill their afternoons and evenings with a dizzying array of sports and extracurricular activities. But why? Are we really that sick of our precious rugrats by August that we will stop at nothing to pawn them off (and pay big bucks) to get them out of the house until bedtime? Are we so afraid they are going to be "bored" or unable to find playmates after school so we compulsively feel the need to structure their every free moment? 

I admit it. I am guilty of falling down the Fall Vortex myself. I openly talk about how much I hate sports and think they are a waste of time, yet I willingly cart my girls off to soccer twice a week, and sit through their insufferable games on saturdays, sometimes even without coffee. I tell myself "that's enough for this season", but then I sign my daughter up for a cartooning class so I can live vicariously through her. I signed up to be a Daisy Troop leader because I felt guilty that my 5 year old doesn't really like sports (but she DOES like Thin Mints as much as me). One thing leads to another, and now we are busy EVERY night of the week...except Fridays. And I would advise you all NOT to visit me on friday afternoons, unless you want to get snapped at by a bunch of exhausted, whiny people. Add to this a dose of perplexing common core third grade math homework, and you have....well, you have the reason why I haven't posted a new blog entry in two months.

Oh, but there is one more reason why I haven't posted a new blog entry in two months. I went back to school! If all goes well sometime within the next ten years in the near future I will recieve my MSW from the Uconn school of Social Work. Okay, so I am not exactly matriculated yet, but my thursday night two credit class about macro theories of human behavior has been just the cure for thinking too much about diaper blow outs and minivans, Caillou and Kraft mac and cheese and other dumb stereotypical mom things. Really, the talking to other people part is what is most appealing. Hopefully, this will be "IT", and I can finally focus and not switch to Nursing again and bang this motherfucker out in the 6 (!!) years they are giving me to graduate. I can do it....I will do it....right after I finish PROCRASTINATING.

Wish me luck!

xo