It’s been two weeks since I’ve last posted, which I acknowledge is long enough in internet time that I may as well have fallen off the planet. I have a lot of obligations right now, and crafting posts for this thing sometimes takes an entire day (or more). I needed to re-prioritize and it happened that this fell down the list. I’d also read this post about mommy blogging hindering career process and I’ve been thinking long and hard about just deleting the archive and starting over and refocusing. But that’s another post altogether (which maybe I’ll get to later today if I’m feeling ambitious).
ANYWAY, the lack of updates hasn’t just been for nothing. It’s been kind of hectic around here in a bad way. My mother-in-law visited last week, which you can read all about at Hyphen because I literally don’t have it in me to write another word about the visit.
We also started potty training Hugga on Thursday while she’s been off school for the long weekend. I haven’t picked up a book on it or anything so I don’t know if there are any other techniques, but all of her preschool teachers suggested to take a weekend at home, make a big deal out of big girl underpants, and just ditch the diapers for good. Today is day 5 and it’s been going surprisingly well — zero accidents for the past two days, and absolutely no number 2 accidents since we started. (Future Hugga, please forgive me for blowing up your spot.)
We got her a damn car to celebrate her newfound big-girl status. We would’ve had to get it anyway since every single kid on our block has one and she completely loses her shit and refuses to come home whenever they have their cars out. It was nice to have an occasion to get it, but she has been wildin out and being stank every minute she isn’t outside in her car, even when it’s dark out and she’s laying in bed. It’s kind of driving me nuts.
Other things, too. A fight with the husband, rethinking the whole grad school thing, losing my focus with writing. I’m kind of in the middle of an existential crisis right now, but I’m trying to swim back to shore, I promise.
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