I ran across this term recently, and being the self proclaimed wordsmith that I am, felt oddly drawn to its newness and techno savvy flavor. I, along with my quadrant counterparts, have been frightfully quiet in the last several months. A friend recently commented to me, “I want to talk to you about your latest blog.”
“What blog?” I replied. “It feels like I haven’t blogged in months.”
“EXACTLY,” he said.
Ok, point taken. Perhaps there is this part of me that feels if I don’t have something significant to say, it’s better to keep my finger wanderings to myself. But probably more likely is that I have been incredibly busy in the last several months. And that is really an understatement. There have actually been many small factors that have gone into my “radio silence” of late.
Temptress and Mr. Big have had a decided change of operations at work, which has caused many more hours of paperwork and computer time from both of them, along with several of the older children, and practically anyone else they can beg, borrow, or steal for the moment. Due to this, T and I have had significantly less time together doing the mommy thing, therefore the majority of household and children duties has fallen back on my shoulders. There is one of me, and thirteen of them – you do the math. It’s an amazing rate of attrition that I cannot physically or mentally sustain the pace required for such an overwhelming task.
In addition to the change of schedules and roles, there is a highly likely chance our family will be moving over the summer. More on that later, but there has been this underlying challenge to begin scaling down, organizing, and making our belongings move ready if that is actually going to happen. The adults have been spending evenings and weekends looking into possible homes for us, another activity that has taken time away from any possible free time.
On a positive note, things at home have been relatively calm and, at the very least, predictable. This leaves a remarkable lack of interesting stories to relate. Bad for blogging; but really good for our family.
I know many of you have been following Fix’s journey with his depression and PTSD, and we are happy to report that after 14 months, Fix is finally off all his medications and doing very well. In addition, the four of us – sometimes together, sometimes in odd arrangements – have begun seeing a most wonderful poly therapist. Also, more on that in another blog.
Our school year is winding to a close and there have been the obligatory concerts, family picnics, and award ceremonies to attend marking the end of another year with nine children to educate. I’m working now on getting together our summer plans, charts, and schedules to make sure I don’t go completely mental during the next 10 weeks. Oh ya, and I want the kids to have fun too.
Let me assure our dear readers that we are not gone, nor have we forgotten our blog exists. I have several blogs in the works, but nowhere near complete. As I trudge through the dishes and laundry and moving boxes and end of year paperwork, I’ll be able once again to approach the keyboard with my prior enthusiasm and sharp remarks. Until then, there are our archives (which I personally feel are full of great new poly wisdom) and our website. Temptress even began a section there for our more adult oriented writings, but you’ll have to email her for the password as we feel the erotica side of our personalities may not be suitable for public web viewing.
Feel free to email us (links on main page of our website) and let us know how everything is going, or if there is some poly topic you’d like us to explore. So for now, I’ll leave you with this question… If you could ask one or all of our quad a question, what would it be?
~the laundry goddess, May 23, 2007
