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You little bl*gger, you
By ella | February 20, 2005
Eldest Son has become accustomed to me blogging. As soon as Second Son goes down for his afternoon nap (and I feel my heart beating a little faster just at the thought of the freedom that goes with nap time), I settle Eldest Son with some fascinating activity, like dusting my TV, and I whip out my laptop as if it were some sort of drug that I have been craving all day and start to blog.
I tell my son that “Mummy needs to do some work.” The poor boy is going to grow up thinking that mothers work from home and the work they do involves looking at other people’s websites and quite often laughing out loud at the stories they read. Quite how he will imagine I earn money from this I have yet to think about. However it is a step up from what he probably thought Mummy used to do: when Matthew used to have difficulty putting the boys to bed while I was in the house (”I WANT MY MUMMY”) I used to put on my coat, kiss the boys goodbye and pretend to go out. You can just imagine what Harry might have said in class if I had still been doing that when he was five or six. “Mummy goes out at night and she comes back in the morning when I get up. And she’s usually really tired in the mornings.”
As a result of Mummy needing to do some work, quite often Harry turns to me seriously and says “Mummy, I need to do some work. Let’s put compooter on.” And I’m a little ashamed to say that he does indeed have his own computer, but my husband is a geek and, by God, if our babies weren’t going to be computer literate before they could even sit up.
But the cat is out of the bag. The word ‘blogging’ is not often mentioned around the house because it is usually only discussed after husband comes home from work after the children are in bed, and also because it sometimes feels like a bit of a sin - nothing such fun could be anything but illicit, surely - and therefore it is rarely mentioned around the children.
But today after tea Harry turned to his father and said earnestly “Daddy, put compooter on. I need to update my blog.”
And so just for today I sit here updating my blog next to my son Harry, who’s three and who is updating his blog.
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LOL! I say the same thing to Gabriella when I want to steal a few moments on the computer. “Mommy has some work to do.”
I have heard her say “I need to check my email”, but I don’t think she knows the “b” word - yet.
lol! We should definitely not be encouraging our children to blog in case they find ours!
Ella, I love the new look!! I changed my blog as well, just a few minutes ago!! I desparately wanted to make mine purple, but my blog hosting thingy doesn’t have a purple template, and I am hopelessly in the dark when it comes to the computer thing. I also tell my kids “I’m working.” Oh, the lies we tell. My son also has his own computer, but mommy won’t let him play with it.
Great new design.
My nephew likes to ‘go to his office’ (where all his toys are). His Daddy works from home and I guess he wants to be just like him!
Hi. Thanks for stopping by my blog.
My eldest son knows when I start heading towards the computer, he asks, “Check email?” And he knows better than to disturb me when I’m busy “checking my email”.