Slacker

Well sheesh. It's been MONTHS since I've been around here. I'd like to say that I've been busy, that my endless list of mommy and wife duties has kept me frazzled and fullfilled at the same time, but that just wouldn't be true. I've just been a slacker.

Really I think I'm suffering from creative exhaustion. My youngest daughter is only three years old, but she's such an advanced three that I think I've reached the limit in my abilities to teach her anything else. Oh, I know she has plenty more to learn....I just don't think she's all that receptive anymore. She's just flat out bored with me. I've done everything I can think of to keep her entertained from cutting her sandwiches into mind-stimulating alphabet shapes to twirling around the living room with a pillowcase on my head while singing "The Hamster Dance". She doesn't even appeciate that "The Hamster Dance" is a techno song, and therefore rather difficult to sing.

No matter what I do, I know I won't ever be as entertaining as "The Wonder Pets". That's the problem. Yes, I know that allowing my child to watch TV puts me on the top of the home visit list for child services. But I'm out of ideas. You can only be creative on a child's level for so long. You can make just so many art projects out of paper plates and empty toilet paper rolls.