It has been just about four month since I last posted an entry out here after having changed my personal blog to reflect a more "family oriented" perspective. Not even really sure what that means, other than I wanted to have Amy do more with it as well as focus on family topics that come up. That may or may not happen, if only because Amy has her own blog at http://devilgirltomama.blogspot.com/ (I believe she blocks those she does not know, so you would have to send a request to view).
I really do not have many excuses for not writing, other than time constraints. I owe time to my music blog site, transcription of an interview I did in late March, and just general stuff. Its been very difficult, to be honest with you. My work has been crazy in that I have pretty much been the only one handling the technical publications responsibilities for my entire company. I have a contractor helping, but she is not as attentive or up to my level and has attendance issues here and there. Another person went out on sick leave...three months ago. Due to legal issues, the company cannot force the issue in that situation, which really sucks, but I have to step back and try to understand since I have had my own things to address throughout last year and this so far.
The twins and Devlin keep us very busy every day, for obvious reasons. We get up between 4 and 4:30am, get ourselves ready, get the kids going, pack lunches and ourselves and then drop the three off at daycare before hitting the freeway for our commute. Our commute is an hour to an hour and half to get to my work, add another 20 to 30 minutes from there to get to Amy's. We leave San Jose around 4pm and get home in time to pick the kids up before 6pm, get home, get unpacked, kids organized and maybe fed/changed while one of us fixes dinner. Bath time after dinner (every other night at this stage...), then off to bed. Amy and I MIGHT have 30 to 45 minutes of alone/down time together before we have to get to bed to get enough rest to turn around and do it all again. And sometimes that gets interrupted one or several times a night by one or both twins for various reasons (hungry, diaper, binkie...). Weekends are taken up with domestic and/or yard work chores or sometimes family outings to the Farmer's Market or other shopping. When we can catch naps, we do, or try to otherwise have some sort of down time.
Hard to motivate to write after all of that and I end up typically doing any during regular business hours in between actual work...
What are YOUR days like? How do you arrange your time and manage? Always looking for fresh ideas, so let me know...
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