Wow, this blogging every day is not working out so well for me. I missed yesterday again. I'm doing my best to keep at it, but life keeps getting in the way. Today I was talking to Cheryl, the teacher I work for, about how I feel about my blog. Generally it is something I am proud of . I am hopeful that people are reading it and that they are somewhat entertained. I was lamenting to her though, that I find myself upset if I can't find anything humorous about my day. I so enjoy reading my friends blogs, especially when they make me laugh. So, as I was telling Cheryl, that since taking on blogging, I now not only have added stress about getting my blog written each day, now I feel stressed if it isn't funny! No one wants to continually read about someones boring days! So, I don't know what to do about this. I'm thinking that I might just give myself permission to write less often, but I am one of those people who do better when I have a schedule to follow, I'm afraid if I give myself the freedom to write "when ever," I just may never get to it. I think what I am going to do is continue to try to write daily, but just not beat myself up when I skip it. Sounds good to me. That way, if I'm swamped and can't get to it, or I just don't have anything to say, I won't feel the pressure.
So on another note, I think my family is keeping our local chiropractor in business. Between Joel's constant back issues, and my kids going all out in their respective sports, I feel like lately I have been at the chiropractor's office more than usual. It is always funny when it is someone else's back that is hurting. My kids love to poke fun at Joel and me when we are hobbling around because we have thrown out our backs, but it is suddenly the end of the world when they are in pain! I can't remember who I was talking to the other day, but they mentioned something about "they don't make kids the way they used to." He was referring to all the injuries on my son's football team. It got me thinking. When I was Will's age I never heard about kids going to the chiropractor. Did we just not hurt our backs? What is different now? How is it that his football team had three kids out with ankle injuries in the first game? Were we really tougher? Did we not play as hard? I obviously didn't play tackle football, but it was around. Were there as many injuries back then? When I analyze it, the only thing I can come up with is that we played just as hard, but I think we had more down time. My kids have 2-3 hour practices at least three times a week and then games 1-2 times a week. Plus they go from one sport to the next with no time to let their body rest and heal. I guess that is my fault, I know I have mentioned before... I want my kids to be too busy to get into any trouble. I just hope they don't have chronic pain as they get older! We think about all this exercise as being healthy, but repetitive stress injuries seem to be fairly common. I guess we all just need to find a way to balance our lives.
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