That’s me ;)
It’s 6:30, and my three-year-old is freshly in bed. I immediately hotfooted it down to my computer.

That’s when I realized how parenting, blogging and work deadlines really shape the pattern of my days.

During the day, my time is divided between working on deadlines and taking care of my son, D. I’m lucky, because my husband is a martial arts instructor, so he’s home during the days (except on days when he has his day classes, and then he’s back by the afternoon) and we get to split the parenting duties. That gives me time to get a lot of my deadlines off my desk during the day, and still “be there” for D.

D goes to nursery school three mornings a week, and I’ll occasionally do some blogging then, too. But looking over my “routine”, I see that I normally try not to blog when he’s around.

I’m not sure why that is.

Anyway, I’m usually itching to get to my blogging by the time D’s bedtime rolls around. He goes to bed every night at 6:00 p.m., and that’s when my “blogging shift” tends to begin. I’ll usually blog for a bit, get some more deadline stuff done, then finish the night off with more blogging.. (I do the dinner thing somewhere in there, too.)

The really nice thing about being a working blogger is that blogging is so flexible (unless you’re blogging anywhere where timely “beat-the-press” posts are a requirement, of course).

I’m going to be spending more time blogging in the new year, probably during the day and not just at night, and it will be interesting to see how blogging will be like when D’s around. With my deadlines, I can usually stop what I’m doing to go (1) get more juice, (2) get more cookies or pretzels, (3) take a look at a picture, (4) draw, paint or build blocks, (5) play a short game or (6) change the occasional diaper (my husband and I take turns).

I do tend to get into a “blogging rhythm” where I throw up post after post, but I’m sure it will be just as easy to take time for these kid-interactions when I’m blogging as it is when I’m working on my other work.

(And if not, I’ll just start posting “Argggh!!” here.)

Any other parenting probloggers out there? I’d be interested to know how you handle blogging when your kids are around!

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