A Girl Grows In Brooklyn

It's Not You, It's Me

For the first time in my life I have a commitment problem. 

 

See, my life has changed in the past 2 months.  My darling daughter has gone from sleeping 3 hours each afternoon to sometimes sleeping 2 hours, or 1.5 hours, or not at all.  Do you know what that means?  It means that I have no time to eat.  Or to take a shower.  Or to watch episodes of Tivo'd Split Ends. It also means is that I have no time to blog here anymore.  

 

This whole motherhood thing is constantly changing.  Just when I think I have it down, something changes.  Just when I think I can make plans, the schedule is gone.  Or different.  And then it changes again, again.  (And then I get another cold and I'm out of commission.)  I'm thankful for my time here because writing this blog has jump-started my interest in picking up a book idea that I started before Mamie was born.  So I'll be working on that in the early evenings and those days that Mamie gives me an hour or two in the afternoon.  And I hope to contribute a essay or two here at Babble, if they'll still have me.

 

Thanks to everyone for their nice comments and for reading my words. 

 

xo- Barbara 

P.S.  Enjoy the naps while you can!

 

 


Published Feb 26 2007, 09:22 AM by BarbaraR

Comments

 

Jonelle said:

Bummer! I was looking forward to see how Mamie fared in preschool. But I understand-- my 6-mo-old has been on nap strike lately, making it hard to do even two hours of work a day. How do other wahms do it?

Best wishes!

February 26, 2007 10:33 AM
 

GirlsGoneChild said:

Love to you! And best of luck with everything! You will be missed but look for me in your local inbox... daily. xx

February 26, 2007 11:46 AM
 

JJ said:

Oy, I remember when I lost naps. In the space of a month, they disappeared entirely. Oh, of course, there is still the odd snooze here or there, but nothing that could be counted on or planned around. I stopped replying to email, reading for pleasure, and hearing myself think during daylight hours.

You'll be missed and I'll keep an eye out for you elsewhere. I stopped in here because I'm a long time fan of Doug's and a loyal mediasquatter, but you won me over all on your own.

February 26, 2007 1:48 PM
 

simone said:

Oh boo. I just lost the nap thing myself recently so I can hardly blame you. I do miss my long showering days. It's the sane thing to do but I'll miss you (and now I bookmarked plotzworld). Best of the best to you!

February 26, 2007 7:38 PM
 

BarbaraR said:

Thanks everyone.  I'll still be blogging at my olde site - plotzworld -- just couldn't commit to this gig here.  Funny though.  I write this as Mamie TAKES A NAP today.  Isn't that how it always goes?

February 27, 2007 1:57 PM
 

Miss said:

That figures. Sorry to hear whats going on but it is just another phase (hopefully) in the saga that is having kids. Best of luck to you and I'll keep an eye out for your work. You are an awesome writer and mother!!

February 27, 2007 6:20 PM
 

panthergirl said:

The good news is that the "changing" thing also applies to bad stuff.

The very best parenting advice I got when my daughter was a baby was "Just when to start to really worry about something, it changes."

She is 21 now and it's been true all along.

I'm a girl who grew in Brooklyn too... three times. ;)

March 10, 2007 9:22 AM
 

kalimurzino@rambler.ru said:

David

May 28, 2007 6:43 PM
 

matcatzrulezz said:

hi semen =)

this is for you my friend =)

July 5, 2007 1:13 PM

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