I used to be irritated by small things: like no centralized location for all household cleaning products so that you have to check under every sink in the house for the biodegradable carpet cleaner. Or having multiple open jars of the same product -say. . . grape jelly -in the refrigerator. However, both the centralized supplies and extra jellies have been usurped by a greater irritation: being incredibly busy, busy, busy at tasks I don't want to blog about. Like Family Fun Night. At the outset of the school year, I volunteered for a second masochistic term as chairperson of the carnival committee, which has consumed all available moments during the past 60 days without so much as a scrap of bloggable material from many hours of supposedly creative endeavors. This year's theme was "This Land is Our Land".
talented girls who cooked up the decorations
Neither you or I wanted to read post after post after post about this annual carnival fundraiser at the girls' elementary school, which was this past Friday night and featured several patriotic, red, white, and bluey Americana events: the "Betsy Ross Sweet Shop" and "Honest Abe's Trinkets & Treasures" and the "Annual Dad's Pie Eating Contest". Well, the Ted Vasquez Trio -Have Strings Will Travel - was bloggable. You know how I love a good banjo.
There was Texas Chili, Idaho Baked Potatoes, and NY Coney Island Dogs in the Coast to Coast Cafe (aka cafeteria) and . . .and . . and. See? See! Unbloggable. Writing about Family Fun Night - and the lack of sleep, hair loss, and missed crafting time it has caused me over the last 2 months - would have driven readers away from Cabin Life like vegans from at Outback Steak House.
But this morning I feel the tremendous relief of having arrived at the light at the end of the tunnel. I feel like shouting (or typing in large caps) I AM BACK. No more holiday events, no more carnival work, no more 2-week trips, no more Christmas cards to write, no more carnival work. And while I did interrupt regularly scheduled Cabin Life programming to bring you the EllieRichellie Dog Days of January, I am ready to get back to the business of choosing less and living more.
OK. One more picture of Rosie.
Is it the sleeping puppy or my father-in-law's jammies that I love so much? I AM BACK.
ERB
2 comments:
Oh my word. I love this post. I want to be at that carnival so bad. Besty Ross Sweet Shop? Banjos? Be still my heart. I would have never left you.
But if there was ever a doubt, the pjs and puppy would have reeled me back in. My Lanta, that's classic.
Unbloggable. . .hardly. Everything you write about is insightful and interesting. And the puppy pics are too cute! The pjs are pretty sweet too--kinda remind me of Grandpa.
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