I’m blaming the scarcity of posts on All The Sickness

Okay, I know. I haven’t exactly been blogger of the year this past week… or two.

But I’m blaming it on the fact that our house seems to enjoy being turned into a sick ward now and again. First the boys caught colds, which of course meant lots of book reading, watching Little Einsteins and doing puzzles. Then we had Crazy Weekend of the Century last weekend, which went out with a bang when I came down with some sort of stomach flu. And then, on the coat tails of the stomach bug, a lovely little cold decided to take up residence in my not-so-welcoming body. Let’s just say I wasn’t too thrilled at that point and we were already on round 11,875 of the read a book, watch Little Einsteins and do some puzzles routine.

The point of all this? That being couped up in one’s house day after day for two weeks doesn’t lend itself to much great blog fodder. Unless, of course, you’d like to hear that, “Look! We read another book! And we love to pat-clap with Leo and Rocket! And we did the boats and airplanes puzzle in record time!”

I mean, those things thrill ME and I’d write about them all day, but I’m the mama and am thus slightly biased, I’m a-thinkin’.

Sitting curled in the corner of the couch for days at a time does, though, give a person plenty of time to think Deep and Meaningful Thoughts. Whether or not those Deep and Meaningful Thoughts (D&MTs, you know) are worth sharing with others, you’ll just have to see for yourselves as they find their way to my fingertips here in the near future–D&MTs about things like the #1 topic people comment on/ask about here and over at my mom’s blog, major thoughts on blogging in general–wondering whether it’s really possible for a blogger to be 100% genuine and what that looks like; the pros (which are pretty obvious) and the definite cons (not always so obvious) of ads, paid posts, and product reviews; figuring out why on earth I’ve been doing this for almost four years in the first place; what direction I really want to take this blog; and, gasp!, should I even keep blogging??

I also did a lot of thinking about how to get Troy to pick a new book after reading the same one 25 times in a row, how adorable Merritt is when he claps in time to the classical music on Little Einsteins, and whether or not we could set a new record with that rescue vehicles puzzle.

Oh, and I had one or a thousand thoughts bordering on paranoia while I wondered how quickly a person (who was working out near-daily and suddenly is only running a few times and making it to one Pilates class in a two week time-frame–due to All The Sickness, people!) can lose all of their muscle tone and have to start over completely when they try to get back in their groove. And whether or not missing two long runs in a row disqualifies someone from running a relatively longish race two months from now, if the distance of the long runs wasn’t that far in the first place.

And I thought a few D&MTs about having a healthy body image and, you know, obsession and paranoia.

I never said I was normal 0r that I didn’t need some mental help.

So, anyway.

I have about twenty-five posts swirling in my head about all these things (minus probably the running thing) and, actually, even more than just those things. I’ll spare you yet another thought-list–which, incidentally, kinda sounds like “thoughtless”–but I’ll just say I’m still thinking about the usual stuff of fear of man, insecurities, identity in Christ, legalism, throwing the baby out with the bathwater, living in fear on both ends of the spectrum, all that jazz. I don’t think those issues are going anywhere anytime soon.

And I just realized this post has no point. Kinda like my days the past two weeks. Ha.

(Not really, though. There have been some normal days. (Lookout, here comes another list.) I went to a 70s party last weekend, we had a garage sale, went to an evening beach picnic with friends, went to church, ran errands, I met a bloggie friend (in real life!) for coffee, Troy went to my parents’ house for a couple days, John and I spent two days with Merritt all by himself, I got a haircut. Between all the sick days, of course.)

But I also just realized I have exactly four hours to finish cleaning my house, get showered, get the boys ready and feed them lunch, all before leaving at 12:30pm to pick up John’s parents from the airport. (Look, I even fit in one last list!) So while I’d like to write up a post full of D&MTs, I’ve gotta vacuum. I do have an album of pictures I’ve been meaning to post for two weeks, which should be up tomorrow–maybe All The Cuteness will make up for the pointlessness of this post?

Check back tomorrow. We’ll see.

So tell me what you’ve been up to the past couple weeks? Are you healthy? Are you busy? Are you enjoying fall? Are you curled up on the couch in your jammies half the day reading blogs?

Not that I’d know anything about that last one. Of course.