Sometimes I wonder about having children. The act of parenting a fifth grader seems so disconnected from parenting the baby. Here I am sitting with my fifth grader making him comlete his homework, making him write down all of the assignments that are due in the calendar that he has with him at school so that he can keep up with his homework, double checking for the third time if he has finally turned in homework that was due last week. When he was a baby all I had to do was hold him and feed him. I guess what I am saying is that this just seems like so much more work than I thought.

Firsts

There are firsts for everything. Tonight I started a blog so that I could enter a page in a contest. Both firsts for me. I also played a video game with my husband and our son, another first. Back to the page that is the most important part of the blog for tonight although I am sure that this blogging thing will start to take off and it will become one more part of my normallife which is filled with non-first events.

This is my page that I am entering in a contest on Pagemaps.com. I had it completed over a week ago and remembered tonight that tonight was the deadline for submissions. I am a terrible procrastinator. Maybe I will blog about that another night. I don't even think that Pagemaps is judgeing the pages they are most likely just drawing names but this is kind of exciting and I hope that I win...I really want those red letters. I would love for this blogging thing to take off in my life. I think it is a great way to let off steam and express myself; not to mention, none of you know me so I can be completely honest, or completely crazy and you would have absolutly no idea. Oh and run on sentences, why not they really are how we speak anyway. How very exciting.

Have a good evening.

Karrilee