Saturday, January 17, 2015

Well, this is embarrassing.

What I mean to do after the kids go to bed: prep lessons for the next day.

What I do: fall asleep in my kid's bed, wake up groggy at 11:30 pm, and stumble into my own bed.


What I mean to do after the kids go to bed: Have an elegantly sophisticated glass of red wine.

What I do:  Make two chocolate mug cakes, one for me and one for my husband.  Eat one.  Eat the other one.  Hide the evidence.


What I mean to do after the kids go to bed:  Read.

What I do: Circle an endless loop of Facebook, email, and Dumpaday humor sites.


What I mean to do after the kids go to bed: Meditate and do yoga.

What I do:  Watch "Continuum" on Netflix.


What I mean to do after the kids go to bed: Write a blog post.

What I do:  Read blog posts.


What I mean to do after the kids go to bed: Reclaim my own time.

What I do: Fritter away the only unstructured part of my day.

This "blog post" was written as part of Finish the Sentence Friday.  The prompt was "When the kids go to bed, I..."  Link up here.

3 comments:

  1. Great to see you again at FTSF! My favorite: "Make two chocolate mug cakes, one for me and one for my husband. Eat one. Eat the other one. Hide the evidence." It's as if you were watching me three nights ago!

    I actually do tend to do blogging after the kids go to sleep. I'm not as productive as I'd like to be at that time of day/night, but that's literally the only time I get. So I push myself to do what I can.

    Hope to see you next week at FTSF!!!!!

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  2. I'm so so glad that you linked up this week! I know exactly what you mean about the difference between what we mean to do once our kids are in bed and what we actually do! Each night, I think "oh, it's early! I can write! I can post that old baby stuff on Craig's List! I can shower tonight!" and then, I troll Facebook, fall asleep, or binge on Netflix (currently on The Newsroom, just finished Homeland, and am getting back into the new season of Shameless hopefully tonight). haha to the chocolate mug cake! Yum!!!

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  3. Man, I don't do anything after the kids go to sleep. I keep daring myself to get up early so I can get it all done, so when the kids are awake, I can just be. and after they are sleep, I can chill with my husband. It hasn't happened yet.

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