atomic sagebrush
December 30th, 2010, 11:16 AM
Note - not reading TO children, I have plenty of time to do that!
I used to read all the time when my older boys were little, but for whatever reason now with my two little ones I CANNOT read a book to save my life!!!
Seriously, when I have 5 minutes to read a book, first I have to go find my book under 40 piles of various child-related stuff, then find a place to sit that is not occupied by someone. Then I read three words and someone needs something. So I have to get up and do whatever it is that needs doing.
Then the baby gets my book and rips the dust cover. I retrieve the book from Baby, who cries until I get him a toy if I'm lucky, or a breast if he's hungry. Then once he's happy I try to start reading again, but I've forgotten what I just read, so I have to go back and reread it. When I do that I realize I've actually forgotten the parts I read yesterday so I have to go back and read those too.
At which point I realize I actually missed an entire chapter earlier on in the book and that's why nothing makes any sense, so I should probably just start over again from the very beginning! In the background, Spongebob is giggling and it's impossible to concentrate because someone is always throwing something at someone else, so it takes me 10 minutes to get through one paragraph.
Then it's time for my husband to get up for work and the whole thing was a complete waste of time because I have chores to do!!!
Is it just me??
I used to read all the time when my older boys were little, but for whatever reason now with my two little ones I CANNOT read a book to save my life!!!
Seriously, when I have 5 minutes to read a book, first I have to go find my book under 40 piles of various child-related stuff, then find a place to sit that is not occupied by someone. Then I read three words and someone needs something. So I have to get up and do whatever it is that needs doing.
Then the baby gets my book and rips the dust cover. I retrieve the book from Baby, who cries until I get him a toy if I'm lucky, or a breast if he's hungry. Then once he's happy I try to start reading again, but I've forgotten what I just read, so I have to go back and reread it. When I do that I realize I've actually forgotten the parts I read yesterday so I have to go back and read those too.
At which point I realize I actually missed an entire chapter earlier on in the book and that's why nothing makes any sense, so I should probably just start over again from the very beginning! In the background, Spongebob is giggling and it's impossible to concentrate because someone is always throwing something at someone else, so it takes me 10 minutes to get through one paragraph.
Then it's time for my husband to get up for work and the whole thing was a complete waste of time because I have chores to do!!!
Is it just me??