Pick & Choose

Funny how now that I've committed myself to NaBloPoMo I am just brimming with things to talk about. Things like:

• How many times my daughter wakes up from a deep and restful sleep just because she knows I want to do dishes
• The amount of water needed to do those dishes when my toddler son is "helping" me and also cleaning/flooding the floor at the same time
• The miraculous appearance of modeling clay smeared into the rug in my son's room
• The next episode of 7th Heaven on Amazon Prime
• What color yarn to pick for my next crochet project that should take me an hour but instead will take the better part of two weeks to complete
• How to explain to my son that his Spiderman  "mittens" are really non-slip grip socks

So you see, I have lots of interesting things to talk about. I'm an interesting gal.

I mean, it takes someone really interesting to decide to make something as wild and crazy as spaghetti - complete with frozen garlic bread! - for dinner on a Monday night. Am I right?


(NO Sugar NOvember update: had some honey on my biscuits at breakfast and about 1 tablespoon of chocolate chips for a snack. Need to go to the grocery...and make a bunch of cookies for someone to get these chocolate chips out of reach! Who wants some?)

Challenge Accepted

First, kudos to you for understanding the reference in the title. If you didn't get it, shame on you for not being a How I Met Your Mother fan. Go now to Hulu or Netflix or whatever other streaming service you use and watch a couple of episodes.

It will be legen...wait for it...DARY! 

Go ahead, I'll just wait right here.

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Awesome, wasn't it?

Now back to our originally scheduled programming - this blog post! Yay!

So. today is November 1st. I noticed in my email inbox today a missive about National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo), which takes place every November. (Read more about NaNoWriMo here.) 

While brushing up on the rules of NaNoWriMo, I discovered NaBloPoMo!! Try saying that three times fast. Anyway, this is also National Blog Posting Month! This event is "hosted" by the lovely ladies over at BlogHer. It is a challenge to write a blog post every day for the entire month of November! 

I must admit I was partially inspired by my friend Rachel, who completed her Octoberfest of blogging. I've been wanting to dive back into blogging for a while, but my track record is not great, so I've been ignoring the urge. Now, after seeing Rachel be pretty successful with at least getting something posted more than once a week throughout the month, I think that it's time for me to try it out.

I am challenging myself to participate in NaBloPoMo 2014. So, every day this month I plan to post something. Anything. Just consistent, intentional participation in something that I hope will help me improve my time management, my dedication to completing a task, my lack of understanding how unlikely it is that my children will allow me to actually accomplish this.

And, just for funsies, my friend Krista has asked me to join her in a No-Sugar-Added November. We are (with the exception of Thanksgiving) going to refrain from eating sugar-laden foods and drinking things with sugar in them. Which means I can't drink sweet tea, put brown sugar on my oatmeal, or sneak any leftover Halloween candy!

I must be crazy!

But, crazy or not, here it begins (a day late). My NOvember. NO sugar, NO excuses for skipping a blog post, and quite possibly NO remaining sanity.

Ready, set, GO!