{"id":13219,"date":"2014-05-11T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-11T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/?p=13219"},"modified":"2014-05-11T05:31:38","modified_gmt":"2014-05-11T10:31:38","slug":"mothers-day-behind-the-blog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3dinosaurs.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/mothers-day-behind-the-blog\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother’s Day Behind the Blog"},"content":{"rendered":"

I hear these words often, “your house always looks so nice”. Well, if you knew me you would never say that. There is a lot that happens or does not happen when you blog. If you are a blogger some things are very nicely staged that way. Today for Mother’s Day a few bloggers are talking about what happens behind the blog. The things you never see or know about. The life of a blogger is far from the perfect picture we give you.<\/p>\n

\"Mothers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

1. When I started this blog over 2 years ago, it was a balance act and still is. I get up at 5AM to work on things. The only day I don’t get up at 5AM is on Sunday. I spend most of the morning in my pjs and slippers until the girls get up and then I get dressed. I rarely do my hair any more. Most times I just goes in a ponytail and stays that way all day.<\/p>\n

\"Mothers<\/a>\n<\/div>\n

2. One other behind the scenes is that I have fibromyalgia and it does affect how I get them done or not done.<\/p>\n

3. When you see a nice clean table for an activity beware that the table might have looked like this or worse 15 minutes before we started the activity. I always have to move something out of the pictures or take a clever shot of the activity. There is never a time that something is not straightened or moved to make it look better.<\/p>\n

\"Mothers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

4. I know a lot of your know my goal is to do two loads of laundry a day, but sometimes I wait until the last minute to fold them. So I have to move them out of way to take pictures. Even if the laundry is done I often have a basket somewhere that needs to be moved.<\/p>\n

\"Mothers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

5. I’m not always as organized as I appear. A lot of times I miss making my to do list or or the menu for the week does not get done and things always fall apart.<\/p>\n

6. I have ups and downs with my girls all the time. I love them but they can be a big trial for me.<\/p>\n

7. My small kitchen counter rarely is clean these days. I don’t always get or make time to clean it as much as I would like. Plus my room looks like a mess.<\/p>\n

\"Mothers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

8. Dusting does not always happen either. See I can write in the dust! Not all the cleaning gets done. Often times I can’t do as much as I want. <\/p>\n

\"Mothers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

9. I make sure the girls room is cleaner than other rooms. I want to be able to go in their room and check on them if I need to during the night without stepping on something.<\/p>\n

10. I always have a notebook at by my computer and always write ideas down in it. I have lists of ideas and lots of them never done. But still fun to collect them. I panic when I misplace them. I have about 6 of them, and each one has different notes in them. For what I do on the blog and printables I put in 30 to 40 hours each week. It is a job thought it does not pay like one.<\/p>\n

\"Mothers<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

11. Things don’t always run smoothly when we do activities. I use to post all our crafts but after we had one major melt down from the girls I started to only post them every now and then. <\/p>\n

12. My girls don’t always want to do printables. I have to make creative ways for them to use them some time. And a lot of the time they just refuse to do them.<\/p>\n

13. I love what I do. I hope that I can do it for years. I love the connection that I have with each one of you. Your comments always make a bad day the best day for me.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoyed my small part of behind the blog. Be sure to check out all the other bloggers doing this! We are all people with different things happening.<\/p>\n

And Next Comes L<\/a> | 3 Dinosaurs<\/a> | Hands On: As we Grow<\/a> | Kids Play Space<\/a> | Life Over C’s<\/a> | Makeovers & Motherhood<\/a> | Not Just Cute<\/a> | One Time Through<\/a> | Play DrMom<\/a> | Southern Girl Ramblings<\/a> | Still Playing School<\/a> | Teaching Mama<\/a> | The Chaos and The Clutter<\/a> | The Craft Train<\/a> | The Educators’ Spin On It<\/a> | The Measured Mom<\/a> | The Mommy Talks<\/a> | Third Stop on the Right<\/a> | This Reading Mama<\/a><\/p>\n

Cassie – 3Dinosaurs.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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