I've Been Busy

Within the past two weeks with the newest addition to our family I have been in the doctors office four times, been sent to the ER, been up every four hours, have been puked on, slobbered on, cried on by all three of my kids, I haven't had the time to shower or eat or sit down for more then 3 minutes and if one child isn't crying the other two are.  Needless to say, it's been busy.

So no, I don't really have  a lot of time to talk or check Facebook or email or any other real form of communication.  If you want to have a full on conversation with me be ready to do it by text over the course of 7 hours because it seems to be the only way I can keep my brain on any form of communication and that's only because I can scroll through the texts and find out where we are in the conversation when ever I get distracted by some small child asking me for the moon... right... now!

It feels a lot like this... Only louder.

This seems to be a hard concept to get for a lot of people.  I blame myself.  When I only had one child it was hard to get a moment to myself to talk on the phone but I did it.  Then I had two and it was even harder but I managed.  Now I have three and it's just a near impossibility.*  But everyone on the outsides just figures I just don't want to talk.  She could manage it with two, why not three?  What exactly does she mean she's been busy?  

When ever a mom tells anyone she's busy everyone around her immediately thinks "excuse".  Because, lets be honest; before we were mom's when ever we didn't really have the energy or just didn't want to do something or go somewhere or talk to someone we just said, "I've been busy".  It was a total excuse!  It's vague, non-discriptive and universally accepted as valid by virtually everyone.  Aren't we all busy?

Unless you have children

But now I realize what busy actually is.  Busy is when you get up at 6:30-7:00am, do the basics to just survive and then at 10:30-11:00pm you look back and have absolutely nothing to show for it.  No phone calls where made, no appointments booked, no emails sent, no conversations had, no workout, no shower, no food, no laundry, the bathrooms are still a mess and your bed isn't even made but at the end of it you feel as if you've been running a marathon for 14 hours.

So no, at the end of the day the last thing I want to do is get on the phone, or respond to passive aggressive emails about how I must really have my hands full to not be able to write back when I have a smart phone and all.  

Some times it just feels like your sinking.  Your trying to be so many things to so many people and unfortunately just like everyone else in my family, people are going to have to wait in line for my attention.  It might not be today, probably not tomorrow but I promise if you are willing to hang out for just a couple of months I'll be right back to my only semi busy lifestyle.  Which involves just the basic walking around my backyard with my phone to my ear while the kids follow behind me as a screaming mess of attention starved animals.

Hopefully my youngest will be walking by then or she's going to get pretty dirty.

Antenella

*it doesn't really matter how many kids you have.  If it's only one or twelve it's still ridiculously loud and hard to focus.