If You Give a Mom a Minute to Write a Blog Post

I am happy to be on vacation. We're currently visiting Keith's family in Iowa, then on to Kansas City, and eventually Colorado.

So you don't have to look at my last post for another two weeks, I asked my friend Lori from Life, Love, and Laughter in a Large Family to be a guest blogger this week.

Hi~So glad to be over here at Messy Cars and Muddy Shoes. Angie and I have been friends for 8 years or so. We have a lot in common: lots of kids, husbands that are pastors, a passion for God, scrapbooking, writing, reading, and photography. I am so excited to have an opportunity to be a guest blogger for Angie and share some of my favorite posts with you, her followers. I hope you enjoy them and I loved to see you over at Life, Love, and Laughter in a Large Family so I can get to know you as well.

Whenever I sit down to write, I want to focus on writing...just block out the rest of the world and pound out the words to another post. That is what I want to do. What usually happens resembles If You Give a Mouse a Cookie and looks something like this:


If you give a mom a minute to write a blog post, she will start to type away and as she's writing she will realize she posted a similar blog a while back.

She searches her past posts to find the one she's thinking of so she can link to it in her new post.

While looking through her old posts, she will realize she has too many tags and will start "cleaning" them up.

As she's "cleaning" up her blog posts, the buzzer will sound on her washer reminding her to move the clothes to the dryer.

Upon loading the clothes into the dryer, she recalls an article she had posted on the MOPs website about Lessons Learned in the Laundry Room.

She will go back to her computer and search through her blogs to find the article only to find that she never actually posted the article on one of her blogs.

So she will proceed to add the article to her blog.

She will then have to search for an appropriate photo.

First she will look through her old photos to see if she just happened to snap one of herself doing laundry with her little darlings.

Wherein, she will ponder if she can take a photo quick that will do the job or if she should just google "photos of moms and children doing laundry" and hope to find one that will work.

After finishing her "new" blog post, she will return to the original "new" post to finally link to the post she thought she'd blogged about two years ago.

After adding the link, she will try to pick up her train of thought.

As she starts typing once again, she realizes that the only sound she hears is the tapping of her fingers on the keys.

She realizes she likes that sound and wonders why she doesn't hear it more often.

Taking a quick look around her, she realizes the reason she can hear the typing is because she can no longer hear the children.

She immediately leaves the keyboard to search for the silent children...

The many reasons to Live, Love, and Laugh while blogging.