Please step away from the computer!

I started this blog 3 years ago and I did a horrible job keeping it up!  Life just got too crazy (it's that how it always goes?).  First, I went back to work in the spring of 2010 and trying to juggle that and 5 kids was quite the challenge.  Then in August my oldest decided to move across the country to live with his dad (my heart was broken and I felt deeply depressed and hurt).  October came and hit us like a landslide (literally!).  My older daughter was in a rock slide and crushed under a 9000lb rock http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/serrabear   Life seemed to stand still at that point, work was pushed aside, the other kids were sent off to grandparents (which meant I stopped nursing my younger daughter), and all attention was focused on my older daughter and her recovery (which turned out to be miraculous!). 

Now, 3 years later, my older daughter has fully recovered, we have added another baby to the family, I have moved up from an hourly position to a management position, and I've decided to try and start this blog up again. 

Our new little one is almost two months old and I have two more months at home before I go back to work.  In that time I'm trying to work on getting the house, food, and life organized enough that things can run smoothly when I return to work on April 1st.  But I have a big obstacle, the computer.  Facebook, Pinterest, and even the news are just too tempting!  I could (and have) spend all day browsing them and finding neat ideas that I want to do with my family, but then I spend so much time finding more ideas that I then don't have the time to do any of them.  I need to tear myself away from them and get to work before I'm out of time!  I will allow myself some time on the computer to update this blog and some free time to search my favorite sites, but it will be very limited.  Life is too short for me to spend all my time staring at a computer with my back to my family.  So now it's time for me to get off my rear and step away from my computer!