Gallaghers Don't Give Up

I’m thinking about combining all my blogs into one. I know you’re wondering why I have three different blogs to begin with. I wasn’t exactly sure either. I kept thinking I needed to keep the things I wrote about separate for my reader (Hi Donna! In case anyone else happens to be reading this, Donna and I aren’t related. We don’t even know each other in real life. We just stalk each other’s blogs.) If someone was interested in organizing they may not be interesting in reading about my kids. Then I thought, I’m not really writing for anyone but myself. I guess I wanted the topics separate for my own reading pleasure. What else do I have to do on those lonely Friday nights when my husband is out of town but read my old blogs and pretend that I’m witty and entertaining, let alone obsessing over how much I was bench pressing 16 weeks ago?

Now I’ve decided that I just don’t have time to write three separate blogs and that’s that. Sometimes I wish I didn’t have a life and I could waste away on the computer, blogging and making lots of internet buddies (You’re my one and only Donna!). Oh how I would love to actually have a real organizing website some day. Nope. It’s not going to happen while I’m home-schooling three little kids. I can’t lose myself to the internet when I have so many important things to do, like today we spent the evening watching Love jump in her jumper. We were waiting for her to fall asleep in it so we could take a picture of how cute it was going to look. She teased us by making a pillow with her blankie and sucking her thumb while she jumped but after an hour of that the whining started so we had to give up and put her to bed.

Kate in her jumper at 21 months.

What about the other day when I did Love's hair five different times in case she did something cute that I had to photograph. It didn’t help that she was having her first ever bad hair day. Then there was this morning when we drove around for 3 hours looking for garage sales and only found three in the whole city. Don’t you hate it when you follow garage sale signs for 10 miles only to come to a dead end and NO GARAGE SALE! Kate thought we should report this criminal act to the police. How could people be so MEAN! Who has time to make and post 30 signs and then not have the garage sale? Too bad they didn’t have time to TAKE THE SIGNS DOWN! And to think we were chanting the last leg of the trip, “GALLAGHERS DON’T GIVE UP.” It turns out we should have shut our mouths and turned around when all the other garage sale-ers did.

With all these important things to do, it looks like I’ll have to resign myself to selling a couple organizing bags and writing the occasional blog.