That's why I haven't posted lately. Despite having at least one blog for nearly 8 years, I have been utterly awful about posting at all, to anything, this year.
I'm pretty sure Tristan is safely to blame. He takes a lot of time. Most days, he's nearly attached to me all day long. In fact, lately I've even been holding him while he naps.
You know how before you were a parent there were things that you called crazy, things you said you would never do? Like, for example, holding an 11-month-old baby while he naps? Yeeeah. Then the baby actually comes along, and goes months hardly napping at all, despite the fact that you spend several hours a day repeatedly trying to convince him to nap. And your baby loses his Happy and is rather tetchy all the time, and you begin to count how much he sleeps and realize that it can't possibly be enough. And you think, well, I can spend several hours a day trying to convince him to fall asleep, trying to move him into his crib without waking him, and praying he'll sleep more than 10 minutes after you do; or you can just bite the bullet and spend that same amount of time holding him and rocking.
So I've been doing a lot of rocking.
Fortunately, I have my good buddy the hand-me-down iPhone to keep my company. Just this morning I scored 57,000-some points in Bejeweled! Today during naptime I've also typed 450 words on my current writing project (all with my thumb, thankyouverymuch), read email, and caught up with my most useful girls forum. I know you're thinking, WOW, what a waste of time! But before I started holding Tristan for naps, I wasn't doing any of those things on a daily basis, because every time I could eek out a second of Tristan-free time I was writing articles or submitting project proposals on Guru.com. Which is still what I'm doing with my Tristan-free time (along with cleaning, feeding children, changing diapers, doing laundry, and so on).
And you know what? Since I started the current nap-on-Mama initiative, Tristan has regained his Happy. Just this week he has invented the most hilariously evil little giggle. It's so funny I had to capture it on video, and as soon as I figure out how to rotate my video clockwise so it's not sideways, I'm definitely going to post it somewhere.
