Slow descent into madness

I've managed to completely mystify myself... ooooooooo. Want to know how? I'm somehow managing the household and working from home. Two year old bouncing around and ricocheting off the wall, cats trying to kill each other, repetition all day long from music cd's, baby Einstein, card games, work work work, writing, more work, more play. "Daddy come play blocks!" sprawl on the floor for 5 minutes after scattering a giant bag of blocks, kid decides she's done almost immediately, sigh and pickup blocks, put em away.

Wish I had a dog, beg myself to buy a dog everytime I watch Marley and Me for the 9 millionth time. Remind myself that I have no freetime as it is, can't take care of a dog. Wife wants another baby, managed to talk me into trying (yeah that was hard). Might have a baby coming soon.

Wife talked me into it repeatedly every day.

Child has learned the art of stalling. When its time for bad we get "Im hungry, i want a bath, I want to pee, I want to poop. I want Dora, I want blues clues, I want ice cream. I want juice. I want play Leo"

And the list goes on.

Why did I condense this so much? Because I'm ridiculously busy with my new business, Thunder Bay Media. Websites, copywriting, ebook deals, blogging jobs. While it's nice that I've more than doubled my income over working EMS and I get to stay home.... SWEET LORD am I starting to hate the computer.

Ok I lied, I love it. It's earning me sweet, sweet money. And here I am talking about absolutely nothing interesting, or funny, and probably saying it to noone in particular.

Hello shoe...you are a lovely color of -black-.

They say when you're a parent, your sanity is the first thing to go. I say it takes a loss of sanity to become a parent... apparently.

I will say that I have changed my methods here at home when it comes to parenting. I was awful about raising my voice. Sometimes, to the point where it made my head hurt and I'd be telling myself "Will you shut up!" as I'm yelling. Nice eh? So since my daughter has been starting to repeat my behavior, because I'm retarded, I decided it was time to show her a little more respect. I started apologizing in the last few weeks when I did wrong by her and I'm working consistently on avoiding any raised voices. She's already behaving better.

Take that nanny 911.


Derek Cromwell is a freelance copywriter, generating expert, quality content and online marketing campaigns for businesses on the web. For information on copywriting and ghostwriting services, head to Thunder Bay Media