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Prep for Blog

So while My Kid is otherwise engaged with her piano teacher and lesson, I am looking at the blogs of the other moms who will be attending the brand/blogger event tomorrow and I am intimidated.  That’s nothing new.  I’m easily intimidated like by people from New York–and I live in New York–so it’s just something I live with.  Anyway, a lot of these moms have blogs that are a lot cooler than mine and have a lot more links than mine.  In the lead up to this event they are writing about how they have been to many of these events before.  This will be my first one!

So, now I am having some angst about having a blog at all.

I didn’t set it up to review products in order to get free swag, but now that that is a possibility I don’t object.  I love me some free stuff.

However, that’s not why I started this blog.  I started it as a writing practice.  It’s working.  If I haven’t posted in more than a week I know that something is out of balance in my life and I probably ought to say something.  Sometimes I just write whatever.  But, more often than not, I become cautious and don’t want to post something until I’m sure I’ve not said anything snarky (which for some is the whole point of having a blog) because I come from the Midwest where “If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say anything at all.”!  That philosophy is the complete opposite of a lot of the really fun to read blogs that I can think of off hand.

So, anyway…

With that in mind,  I will commence anxiety about what to wear so I won’t look too old and frumpy.  How should I do my hair?  If I wear heals and perfume can will avoid arriving all sweaty and smelly instead of  “Red Carpet Casual”  ready to the event in Tribeca that I am going to straight from a clown jam at a studio in Midtown.  I’ll also need a red-nose clown ensemble that doesn’t take up very much room in the bag I be carrying around for the rest of the day.

Oh well, time to move on with the day, the piano lesson is over.

Family meeting with Me, Myself and I

I’m having a family meeting.

We’re going over the calendar of upcoming events.

I’m the only one at this meeting.

The rest of the family have signed off on their delegates to this meeting.

Everyone has delegated to me.

So here I am

By myself.

Looking at the calendar and deciding which is more important.  For me to take My Kid to soccer practice or for me to not take My Kid to soccer practice and instead attend the: Workshop for Families: How can you support your third, fourth, and fifth grade students’ reading progress? Teachers College Reading and Writing Project staff developer, Emily Smith will share information to help you encourage and support your child’s reading growth across the upper elementary years.

I was going to go to that.

I had completely forgotten about soccer practice…

Let’s see, what else…

I called the piano teacher and moved My Kid’s lesson from 4 pm on Saturday to 1 pm on Sunday due to a conflict with her soccer game.

I am trying to decide if this will then affect my ability to participate in Eliza Ladd’s Tribal Epic improvisational workshop leading to a potential performance opportunity which is also on Sunday afternoon when My Kid has yet another soccer game in addition to the piano lesson which may end up being cancelled in favor of chilling and free play in the life of my over booked child.  And I’m not even going out of my way to put her in a lot of stuff.  I blame it on the two after-school days per week devoted to free test prep in preparation for the stupid standardized tests that will affect My Kid’s middle school choices.

Monday will require some finessing since there is not that much time between the end of My Kid’s ballet class and The Husband getting home from work and the Downtown Clown event I am planning to attend…

…and what about dinner and homework?