It’s 2:20 on Wednesday afternoon, and other than a quick, not-a-real-post on Monday, I haven’t blogged this week.
We had “snow” days on Monday and Tuesday, which were really Ice Days. The roads were bad, so school was canceled, but we managed to get out with friends to have a BLAST “sledding” in our laundry baskets.
Today, it actually snowed, but school wasn’t canceled.
My 13yo took that pic as I dropped him off, but now there’s not a patch of snow to be found. All of it has melted.
So why a post about priorities?
Here are mine:
1. Be mom and wife.
2. Be a blogger.
Basically, I have always been committed to putting life before blogging. I consider my family my life’s work.
I’ve re-committed to that lately. Not that anything has changed, but I’ve decided to not let my blood pressure rise when blogging gets pushed down the list by Mom Stuff.
Even though blogging (and podcasting, and speaking, and writing e-books, and interacting on social media) is officially my job, if my priorities got out of whack, I’d have to let it go.
I’d prefer not to let it go, so I’m committing to not let it get out of whack.
Sorry if that’s confusing, but this hour between getting home from counting money for a school fundraiser (a Mom Thing) and picking up kids from school (another Mom Thing) is going really quickly. I don’t have time to blather AND edit.
Basically, these “Snow” Days have been a test of my renewed commitment to stop blogging as needed when Momming throws me a curve ball. It was way more important to watch the fourth Harry Potter movie and work on a Star Wars puzzle and dig out coveralls and mismatched gloves than it was to write.
Here’s hoping tomorrow allows for some time to write the posts that have been rolling around in my head.
Oh. And don’t forget about the Spring Cleaning Printables Bundle that’s going on right now. It’s one of the ways I get to call this my job.
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Without the mom and wife stuff, there’d be nothing to blog about. So, as a wise man once said…party on, dude!
I completely understand. I think women should be able to work and take care of our families.
You put your priorities in the right order. Good for you. 🙂 You won’t regret that ever!
I don’t know what the point is of working from home if you can’t time off when you need to. To me that is one of the best things with a self-employeed-work-from-home-job
that is exactly why my blog has breaks of 8 months between posts and i never got to make it into a job…. well, i have a baby and a toddler at home, one daughter in daycare and a husband who works irregular hours. most evenings i am alone, mornings are our prime family time… so no way to blog regularly. i am just happy to get the dishes done every night. oh and i love your laundry basket 🙂 and your face in the picture.
Love the photo! Your faces are priceless. Not easy to put Harry Potter above blogging, but that’s not what it’s about at all. I needed to hear this today. Thanks.
Yes! Thank you! It is so easy to get caught up and forget what is truly important. Enjoy those snow days.
You don’t need to apologize for not blogging. We get it.
I’ve started to reframe what I consider My Work. I’m a freelance musician and while I don’t work that much in terms of hours I’m outside the house many of my orchestra jobs require a lot of practicing. Often disproportionate not only to the money I make but for the small role those jobs play in my life. I realized things are getting out of hand and I need to start setting some limits because I noticed I was feeling guilty for taking time off practicing to do things like clean my house and volunteer at my kids school. But those things are my job, or My Work, too. Cleaning the kitchen, doing laundry, grocery shopping, taking my kids to their activities, etc. Just because I’m not making money doing them that doesn’t mean they shouldn’t be considered Work. Same with your blogging. So good for you! 😉
And I’m a little jealous of your Snow Day. Last week we had a day of windchills in the negative 20s and I was really hoping school would be canceled so we could have a day of relaxation and rest. No dice. This late in the season it needs to be much worse before they call school.
Enjoyment of your family is “the priority!”
Family should always, always come first. You’re making the right choice. 🙂
Thank you so much for sharing this! I love seeing women sharing that they put their priorities where they need to be!