"...rambling about absolutely nothing..."

We raised our fur baby well. He's already teaching Branflake the valuable lesson of sharing.

No matter how many times I took the toy away, or attempted to get Sawyer to play with it elsewhere, he wound up right back on the quilt with the kiddo and the toy.

Branflake has also reached another milestone:

Ta-daaaa!

I wonder if being a homemaker is making me dumber.

I find that lately I'm having a hard time concentrating on anything for a long period of time. I have multiple projects around the house that are half-finished. I haven't even started packing even though we're slated to close in two weeks!

When I was still working I was regularly praised for being able to communicate so clearly via e-mail and job aids that I created. I feel like my brain doesn't work that way anymore.  My typing has become atrocious. I have to re-type words numerous times because I keep transposing the letters. I've never been dyslexic before. It also seems like my verbal communication is not as clear as it used to be. I tend to ramble and and I feel like I have to go into great, and unnecessary,  detail to explain anything so it takes a long time to get to the point.

My mom has been a homemaker for a few years now. She's always been a little gregarious, telling very long-winded stories and taking forever to get to the point in anything, but over the last few years it's gotten significantly worse. I think I'm starting to understand why.
 

As exciting as moving across the country has been, and despite the great benefit this move has offered to me in being able to stay home and raise our son, I am really homesick. I miss my friends. I even miss my job sometimes. I've become very dependent on P.B. for companionship because I don't have anyone else to talk to or to have adult interaction with. 

I hate to say it, but people in the Midwest don't utilize the internet like they did back home (as evidenced by the lack of decent internet service providers *cough*suddenlinksucks*cough*). Even the local newspaper's web site looks like something a middle school student put together. I'm  reminded of how difficult it was to find a place to rent when we were first moving out here. Now I'm having a hard time finding mom groups or information on functions that would help me meet other moms.

Hopefully moving into a real neighborhood in town instead of living in this rural grouping of houses will help cure me of my loneliness.

This post is a perfect example of me rambling about absolutely nothing and not really ever getting to a point. Gah!