Sandy Calico is a wife and mother of two baby boys born within a year of each other. She thinks the phrase 'you've got your hands full' was written especially for her. Sandy is now a stay at home mum and works harder than she ever did in her career as a Financial Controller. Her blog Baby Baby is primarily about life with the little ones. Away from blogging Sandy also writes, records and performs her own songs. There is a sample of her work on her Myspace. She's @SandyCalico on Twitter
BLOG LIFE BALANCE
My name is Sandy and I'm a blogoholic.
There I've said it.
I was inspired to write this post by a question the lovely Sian asked on British Mummy Bloggers. She was in Chicago for BlogHer09 and wanted to know: how do you as a Mum and a blogger find the right balance in your life? You can read the full discussion here. Sian also has a wonderful blog called Yummy Mummy Tips, although while she was away her son Dinoboy took it over!
I had started to comment, but soon realised I had enough thoughts for my own blog post.
I started reading and commenting on blogs in May this year. I soon started blogging myself and over the past two and a half months I have become totally addicted to blogging. If I'm not writing my own, I'm reading and commenting on other people's blogs. I've just had a look at the blogs I'm following.
I'm following 172 blogs.
The majority are mummy blogs, but I've come across so many other interesting writers. I don't want to remove any of the 172 and I'm finding new ones every day. So how do I keep up?
- I've got the boys to take their afternoon naps together.
- I've pretty much stopped watching TV.
- I don't spend very much time on my music any more.
- I stay up late.
That still doesn't give me enough time.
Something has got to give.
I don't want this 'something' to be my relationship with my husband Andy. I'm lucky that he is very understanding. He knew that I was feeling quite isolated and is glad that I have found the friendship of the blogging community. Andy spends a lot of time on his music, so he's not sitting around waiting for me to step away from the laptop.
We still make time for each other. When we had children, we thought about the best way to still be Andy and Sandy (don't laugh, we could have called the kids Randy and Mandy!) as well as Daddy and Mummy. This is what we decided:
- We always eat together every evening, in the dining room. No TV, no PCs. We talk about our days.
- Every other night or so we'll watch a TV programme we've recorded, we may have a glass of wine too.
- We always go to bed together at the same time too.
I'm an all or nothing kind of person. I want to read blogs, read the comments and add my own comment too. I've got 83 posts unread in my Google Reader. It's hard, but I'm going to have to cut down on the commenting for a while. Just until I've caught up!
By the way Blogger isn't letting me view followers' profiles at the moment. If you leave me a comment I should be able to find you that way! Thanks.
I would love to know how you manage blogging, relationships and parenting.
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