Side Kick

I know this isn't the best picture I've ever taken, but I needed something to post, and since I haven't picked up my camera much lately, this is the best I've got. I think William looks sort of possesed, but the mosquitoes were chewing us up and we had to get inside, so the photo shoot ended. Trust me, he's much more adorable in person. :)

Caroline is at a morning day camp all week, so the little man and I have been having a blast spending quality time together. We've been to Target, the sporting goods store, the pharmacy, the toy store, the dry cleaner, the farmer's market, etc., and today we - gasp - ran out of errands. This is sort of hard to believe, especially since errands have been the bane of my existence for the past year or so. See, with two small children and William's twice-a-day nap schedule, finding any time to run errands was really difficult. What time we did have when nobody needed to be sleeping or eating was much better spent doing something fun or hanging out with our friends. So we never did. Run errands, I mean. Well, this week, with only one child (who is now down to one nap, btw) and many of our closest buddies out of town, I took advantage of alllllll that free time and did errands and had lots of one-on-one time with William. And it has me very excited for the fall. Caroline will be in school three mornings a week, which will give me lots of time alone with my main man. He's a great side kick, and I think we'll have a blast.

On the other hand, I am sorely missing my long, quiet mornings of yore when Caroline was at school and William napped peacefully upstairs. I keep finding myself putting things off for "when I have a quiet house" before I remember that I don't have that on a regular basis anymore. Things like blogging. I'm struggling to find time in my new schedule to keep up with the blog. I know that we will find a new normal, and that our new schedule is going to make all kinds of great things possible for us, but as a person who doesn't like change and craves routine, I'm floundering a bit. And all this is my (wordy) attempt to explain why I haven't been blogging much, and to ask you all to stick with me a bit until I find a new rhythm.

I'm sure my monkeys will do or say something hilarious/adorable/outrageous soon, and my blogging muse will be back. :)