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Ashley Moreno
www.ChaosDiaries.com
Where Ashley blogs about juggling (not literally, of course)
4 kids, marriage, homeschooling, Down syndrome, ADD,
dueling food allergies, adolescence, clinical depression,
1 llama, 1 horse, 2 goats, 2 dogs, and 1 bulimic cat.
What inspired me to blog? Let’s call it divine intervention. See, every day I pray “Dear Lord, please let this be the day that nothing happens.” But the funny keeps on happening. I finally realized God is just giving me material. And chances are He’s going to keep giving it to me until I use it. So it’s really a matter of self-preservation. I write it down as it happens, and God doesn’t have to go getting more drastic on me.
I’m just your average neurotic mom, juggling four children (not literally, of course), marriage, a writing career, homeschooling, Down syndrome, adolescence, ADD, clinical depression, dueling food allergies, one llama, one horse, two goats, two dogs, one useless fish, and one bulimic cat.
I don’t have a train of thought. I have bumper cars. As such I will digress, tangenticize, and often find myself stuck in the wall, spinning my wheel slowly in one direction (those ride operators at the carnival tell you that like it’s gonna work). Sometimes I manage to cruise along just fine, and then another thoughtcar will ram into the first, which will then go careening off into oblivion. It’s always a toss-up as to which car will prevail. It happens. More often than I’d like. In this blog, as in real life, I will make no attempt to correct this phenomena. Like turning the wheel slowly in one direction, it is an exercise in futility.
Every blog seems to embrace a theme of some sort. There are the ‘how-to-be-frugal’ blogs, the ‘ways-to-do-it-better’ blogs, and the ‘can-you-believe-you-ever-lived-without-this-jewel-of-information’ blogs. Blogdom is a world rife with opportunities to improve your status-quo. Everywhere you turn, at your very fingertips lies a wealth of information to facilitate better living.
This ain’t that kind of blog.
I wish it were. But the truth is, I don’t have it together. I aspire to, but there’s always something getting in the way. Every once in a rare while, I find that I’ve managed to craft a tenuous illusion of togetherness, but then I sneeze or a child falls off of a piece of furniture that was never really intended for standing on in the first place, and the ethereal vision vanishes, like fog on the bathroom mirror when you turn the blow dryer on it. (You didn’t know that? Consider it a freebie. And a fluke).
No, I can’t help you do it better or cheaper, or look better while you do it cheaper.
What I can offer you is a frame of reference, a bar set so low that, on your worst day–the day that you catch the baby eating dog food and your new, uninsured cell phone falls in the toilet and nobody took a nap and your husband calls to say that he’ll be at least three hours late and you’ve looked in all three refrigerators and what’s the point of even having three refrigerators if there isn’t any beer in any of them–hypothetically speaking, of course–that on your worst day, you can stop by, enjoy a laugh or two on me, and go back to your life knowing that in this crazy, chaotic world, there is one person you are more together than.
Fair enough? Good. Let the journey begin.