Blogging.
For years, blogging was a lifeline for me. A way to stay sane. A way to vent all of my frustrations and catalog my life in a way that made it feel more meaningful. I mean it was meaningful, but staying at home with one's children is an isolation unlike any other.
Didn't I just blog about how I like being socially isolated----why, yes I did.
But there is a difference in choosing to be socially isolated when I have the option and ability to be (which is now) versus the isolation imposed on a person when she stays at home with her baby and has to put her baby's needs above her own. And even though I am socially isolated in terms of entertaining or "hanging out," I am not socially isolated in that I am around people all the time by teaching and subbing. And I have three children now who often max out my sociability by the time 9:05 am rolls around. That sits in stark contrast to first-time mom with a newborn who is in her house all the time after being a professional working gal for a decade.
I still enjoy blogging, but I often find it difficult to find things I want to write about.
There are topics about which I've thought of blogging----
*like about how I wonder if I did things as a childless teacher that the parents of my students felt like ringing my neck for because my assignments and their due dates probably didn't take into account how freaking difficult it is to manage homework for children in the midst of fixing dinner and getting baths and doing activities. I don't remember, but I ask myself if I ever gave assignments over long weekends when families probably just wanted to do nothing and not have the hassle of a long-term assignment.
*like about how when I sub at the high school for kids with emotional problems, I see myself in them, especially now when I can fly off the handle and rage for seemingly unimportant reasons (mostly PMS-related). But I see the combination of my OCD/GAD and my hormones and what they make me feel inside and how they make me lash out at times. I see this in those kids. I worry that G will be the same. I think that it is probably a bonafide miracle that I am not an abusive parent.
I used to regularly do NaBloPoMo, but now to blog every day would feel like a chore rather than a lifeline.
And yet, to not blog, to give it up completely, would leave me empty.
I'm working on this balancing act.
For years, blogging was a lifeline for me. A way to stay sane. A way to vent all of my frustrations and catalog my life in a way that made it feel more meaningful. I mean it was meaningful, but staying at home with one's children is an isolation unlike any other.
Didn't I just blog about how I like being socially isolated----why, yes I did.
But there is a difference in choosing to be socially isolated when I have the option and ability to be (which is now) versus the isolation imposed on a person when she stays at home with her baby and has to put her baby's needs above her own. And even though I am socially isolated in terms of entertaining or "hanging out," I am not socially isolated in that I am around people all the time by teaching and subbing. And I have three children now who often max out my sociability by the time 9:05 am rolls around. That sits in stark contrast to first-time mom with a newborn who is in her house all the time after being a professional working gal for a decade.
I still enjoy blogging, but I often find it difficult to find things I want to write about.
There are topics about which I've thought of blogging----
*like about how I wonder if I did things as a childless teacher that the parents of my students felt like ringing my neck for because my assignments and their due dates probably didn't take into account how freaking difficult it is to manage homework for children in the midst of fixing dinner and getting baths and doing activities. I don't remember, but I ask myself if I ever gave assignments over long weekends when families probably just wanted to do nothing and not have the hassle of a long-term assignment.
*like about how when I sub at the high school for kids with emotional problems, I see myself in them, especially now when I can fly off the handle and rage for seemingly unimportant reasons (mostly PMS-related). But I see the combination of my OCD/GAD and my hormones and what they make me feel inside and how they make me lash out at times. I see this in those kids. I worry that G will be the same. I think that it is probably a bonafide miracle that I am not an abusive parent.
I used to regularly do NaBloPoMo, but now to blog every day would feel like a chore rather than a lifeline.
And yet, to not blog, to give it up completely, would leave me empty.
I'm working on this balancing act.
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