Kids Teach Us So Much

I was naughty thirsty this morning and went to Starbucks for a refreshing iced tea lemonade, and gave into the little Bibble when she asked for a blueberry “nuffin.” So we plop down at the table and chairs while they’re making my drink, and I sit in a semi-daze while Sophia pulls her muffin out of the bag.

(If you’ve ever had a Starbucks muffin, you know how huge the muffin-top is, and you also know that their tops have this yummy crumb coating that tastes delicious but probably isn’t so healthy for you.)

Sophia looks up and stares at me cheerfully while getting ready to eat her yummy delicious muffin, and I’m smiling because she’s so happy it looks like she’s singing a song in her head. While she’s still bopping her head around with that big Bibble smile of hers she proceeds to take the paper muffin-wrapper off and starts gleefully eating the muffin - the bottom part of the muffin.

At this point I’m wondering what planet she’s from what kind of person doesn’t eat the muffin-top first. Here’s this 4-year-old with the mentality of fun now, work later, and she’s eating the most boring part of the muffin and working her way up to the grand prize. I half expect her to realize what she’s done, stop, and go for the crumb-coated blueberry mound on top, but she doesn’t. She continues to smile a song as she devours the entire muffin bottom, after which she puts the top in the bag and proclaims “I’m gonna save it for later, maw-maw.”

What the? What did I just witness? I just realized she was giving me the kick in my pants that I’ve been needing. Starting a new project (career for that matter) is tough when you don’t know where to start. I’ve been a little paralyzed over the past couple weeks, only because it seems so overwhelming that I’m stalling. Here’s what Bibble taught reminded me…

Sometimes it’s better to save the best for last. Otherwise, what motivation is there to work your way through the crap? You gotta have gold waiting for you at the end of whatever trip you’re taking. For me, this means postponing Twitter and MySpace and Sykpe’s Sudoku by paint until my projects for the day are done…no matter how bad I wanna tweet. Get the worst over first. When I’m procrastinating, I tend to fiddle around with the least intensive project waiting for me. It should be the other way around. Get the hard stuff out of the way and you can actually relax and enjoy doing the enjoyable things what’s left.

Thanks, Bibble. Now back to work!

Welcome to my NEW site!

I’m so excited to finally have Crazy Mom’s Journal on its own domain, and I’m so glad you decided to come check it out! It’s been a crazy two weeks trying to get this thing (and my professional blog) set up, and while it’s not quite perfect yet, it’s on its way.

I’ll have some updates to make real soon - we’ve had one stressful weekend with a kitty staying his second night at a Pet E.R….looks like he’ll be okay, but for a while there we thought we’d be burying a kitty this weekend. So, as soon as well all get our act together, I’ll take the time to write a post and let you know how we (and kitty) are doing.

Crazy Mom

Waiting, waiting, waiting…

Well, I did one thing today. I uploaded a new picture of myself to all the sites I participate in…was SO tired of seeing that old pic of myself!

I’ve also been working on creating my two new sites…but apparently when you buy a new web domain you have to wait 72 hours for anything to show up….and of course it hasn’t been that long yet. I’m just so impatient lol.

Nothing else new here…just thought I’d stop by and say hi!

Construction on hold!

Today I did a fun thing. I purchased the domain www.crazymomsjournal.com and will soon be moving this blog to that web address. No more Blogger for me! I’m hoping to use Wordpress, if I can figure out how to transfer all the information currently on this site over there without totally screwing it up.

I also purchased a domain for my new writing site, “DP Writes”, and I’m really excited about that site. It’s actually going to be a blog, but with pages for information about me, my writing, clips of my work, etc. If you’ve been following me on cyberspace for a while now, you’ll remember I used to have a site with a web address of my name…well I let that expire and some spammer picked it up and now if you type in my name in Google, some awful site comes up with a picture of someone who is most definitely not me.

So anyway, back to my original train of thought. I realized that when I transfer this blog over to Wordpress that a lot of the design and layout will be changing. So, no point in working on that now. And because it’s a weekend, I’ll have to wait a few days until the web hosting I purchased is accessible….you have just a little longer to wait. Oh, and I promise I’ll make the task of switching your feed reader easy for you once both the sites are up and running.

I’ll post an update in a few days…

Changes Coming Soon

Over the next week or two, I’ll be making many changes to this blog - including a revamp of the sidebar, links, content, and so forth. Pardon the mess while this takes place. I promise the blog will be even more enjoyable when I’m through!