LaLaGirl – Twinfinite Chaos! Parenting Multiples and Dealing with Autism

Today, my wonderful hubby took my vehicle to work so he could take it for some routine maintenance. It’s hard to get that sort of thing done when you have little kids tagging along, so he’s just being kind and doing me a giant favor. Also, I think he likes knowing exactly what’s done with our vehicles – just a guy thing, right? Anyway. Yay for my hubby!

And, I’m having lunch with my sister. Yippee! Have I mentioned in the past five minutes how grateful I am that my sister is such a huge part of my life? We have the best sisterfriend relationship. She’s my best friend, and I’m soooooo happy she’s right down the street instead of two states away.

I thought to myself, surely I have a picture of my two favorite people together, just sitting in my Flickr account. Well, I did, but it’s from Halloween. Ha! I know I have better pictures of Kim and Paul together, but this one cracked me up!

Love them.

Popularity: 9% [?]

This morning, I was ready to delete this blog. I used to find so much pleasure in documenting the lives of myself and my family, which is evident by taking a look at my archives – the writings here used to be a lot more prolific. One of my favorite features here is the “On this Date” thing in the sidebar, which links to posts from around this date in previous years. I love looking back at our lives and seeing how things were going on a random boring Tuesday, when my big kids were still in diapers. Probably boring to the rest of the world, but it makes me happy. Lately, though, the joy has been sucked right out of writing for me – mostly because I feel that I have to censor what I write, so that I put out the right image for advertisers and others who might be reading. And that sucks. As careful as I try to be about what I write, I never can seem to say what I want to say without pissing somebody off.

My blog writing has actually been a huge point of contention between my husband and me. He’s a very private person, and having a wife who blogs is difficult for him. We had a big heart-to-heart about the nature of writing online, and how difficult it can be to share things about my life and my family without becoming a stalker’s wet dream. He made me realize that sometimes, it doesn’t matter how carefully you word something, because people are always going to see what they want to see in it.

Who would have ever thought that my husband, who hates everything about blogging, would be the one to talk me off the ledge? He loves me and wants me to be happy, and he knows that writing is what makes me happy. So, at his insistence, I’m going to stick around. My sincere apologies for crying wolf – I hate it when people do that!

Popularity: 20% [?]