Back door blogging...
Wow. I haven't written in "this blog" since October. This is my journal blog, where I tried to write 400 words here everyday for a month. I think I failed. Not sure. But as much as I wanted a place to "stream" write, it was kind of lonely because no one would ever read it. It's not visibly linked in my website. It's truly the back door.
Writing on my blog blog has become kind of a handicap now with being connected to social media as I have to consider who might be reading when I want to write about something specific.
5 mins...go
My son has a friend in the neighborhood. He's not my favorite of influences. I'll still be kind not to call him a brat. He hurts my son's feelings a lot, but they are always dying to play with one another and then fall out in short time. We don't ever coordinate a sleepover unless it's necessary. Parent - favors - not for the kids sake.
Everything is peaceful between my son and the other kids who come and play until the other boy comes over. I never allow more than one friend in the house at a time. No matter what the weather conditions are. Hot or cold. One friend can stay when you want to come inside. Three is a crowd and somebody always gets upset at one.
So my son doesn't have his own cellphone yet. The one friends texts me to see if he can play. I wait until my son comes back in the house to tell him that his other friend texted for him to come over. My son drops everything - the two little kids from next door - to go over to his other friends house to play.
He comes back 10 minutes later to say his friends dad came out five minutes later and said that his friend couldn't play because he had chores to do. This isn't the first time that has happened.
Next time he texts me, from my "not the mom" end I want to ask, "Have you done your chores?"
Can I do that?
This was my 5 minute Stream of Consciousness Sunday post. It’s five minutes of your time and a brain dump. Want to try it? Here are the rules…
- Set a timer and write for 5 minutes.
- Write an intro to the post if you want but don’t edit the post. This is writing in the raw.
- Publish it somewhere. Anywhere. The back door to your blog if you want. But make it accessible.
- Link your new posts to All Things Fadra (feel free to use her SOC Sunday graphic).