The Delaney & Waylon Diaries is celebrating FOUR YEARS! I started this blog on June 23, 2005, just three months after Delaney was born. My life was completely turned upside down by my beautiful baby girl and a new work-from-home opportunity, both of which were the inspirations that led me to where I am today both personally and professionally. It seems I hardly post here any more but I can't find the guts to shut this blog down. So, if you're still reading my occasional posts, thank you. I've met so many smart, savvy, wonderful and amazing people through this blog. You've inspired me too. Thanks for coming back again and again.
...saying all kinds of words and trying to say others. Sure, crocodile, popsicle and helicopter all sound the same (and a little like Czechoslovakian) but *I* know the difference.
Delaney, as she looks wistfully at me: "Mom, you know what I wish we had? More dresses than I could ever wear. More house than we could ever live in. More food than we could ever eat."
Because I have sooo much time on my hands (ahem), I started blogging for the San Antonio Express-News about being a work from home mom. It's a topic I originally wanted to discuss over here at The Delaney & Waylon Diaries. But, as this blog evolved over the last four years, it's really become a place for me to jot down silly, lovely, maddening, adorable, hysterical things about my kids. Now I imagine reading back over this blog and these first few years of their lives when I'm an old lady, howling with laughter at my inexperience and bravado. That's pretty much what I do these days when I read my high school journals. *cringe*
I started this blog nearly four years ago after I'd just had my first baby and a previous employer asked me to work part-time from home. It was an easy decision (I'd been with the company for 8 years and knew the job in and out) made easier by the luck o' the Irish: my newborn slept great day and night (Don't hate me. My second child more than made up for that good fortune.). For nearly four years I worked part-time, during the day, when Delaney (and eventually Waylon) napped. My nights were free for important things like watching Survivor and reading the latest Marian Keyes novel. But not any longer. I left my part-time job about a month ago and began working to build the consulting business I'd started on the side a year ago. Now my nights are spent draped over my laptop, eyes blurring into swollen slits as I work long and passionately into the night nurturing my new venture.
Lucky for me, business is good. But it's busy. It's oh so busy! Jeff Probst is starting to wonder where I am (Jeff, don't fret. You can always find me on Twitter!). That's why this blog's gotten a bit dusty (BlogHer ads cut me off!). But it's comforting to know that the ol' blog's still here, keeping the light on, waiting for me to fill it with my deepest thoughts, my most inane chatter, whenever the urge strikes and the time allows.
I'll check in from time to time to give updates on Delaney and Waylon who both change so much each day that I realize I'm missing out by not documenting it all here. I'll be back. At least until the new Marian Keyes comes out. Oh, wait. I'm starting Dooce's new book tonight so it may be a while until you hear from me after all...
I keep meaning to post here about Delaney turning four and all the ways in which she's growing up. And I will, but a post like that deserves more attention that I can give it now. Instead I'm going to jot a quick list about both Delaney and Waylon because if I don't do it now I'll forget and if I do that I'll never forgive myself.
As the day winds down and the children are fed, bathed and bedded I head downstairs with every intent of reconnecting with this blog and reviving it. I've been away too long. The exhaustion of the day, previously absent due to constant motion, sets in. Sleep calls and now that Waylon jumps on the bedtime bandwagon and sleeps 12+ hours (Am I jinxing it here? Now?) I take advantage of the fact that I will get more than three to four straight hours of sleep per night. Thus, The Blog stagnates. The Blog will still be here in the morning--always vigilant, awaiting meaningful content (hmmm...could be waiting a while for that). But for now? I sleep.