perpetually behind

these days i'm feeling perpetually behind schedule...

i'm behind in replying to comments and emails.

i'm behind in reading your blogs.

while i'm not behind with knitting, i have a backlog of finished projects i'm behind in photographing and posting about...

how do y'all do it?  how do you find/make time for keeping up with this wonderful online community that i feel so blessed to be a part of?  

while you mentally compose your replies, here's a couple photographs from this past weekend when my parents and my sister and my nephew came to visit.

just staring at his sweet little face makes me feel better (it doesn't help me catch up with my computering... but it does make me feel better).

aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!  enough with the staring!  get back to work!!  

-melissa

Comments

[Kathy]

Haha! I don't! I feel perpetually behind in posting and replying to comments. I feel guilty about it too (the replying, not the posting) I think you have to let it go. You don't have to reply to my comments - see, fewer things to do! :)

[Lindsey]

Sigh, I'm with you. Actually way, way behind you. I don't keep up with anything very well these days.
But I am reading this book (kind of halfassed reading, ok, I've read the foreword) called the gifts of imperfection. It is helping me see that it is ok to let go and embrace what I am rather than concentrate on what I am not.

[Rachel]

What a cutie!! I think the obvious answer to that for me is I don't! I try to keep up with commenting on my most favorite blogs even if sometimes I end up reading weeks worth of posts at one time...just because I really want to keep up with what you all do. But I'm not always so good at replying to comments even though I try.

I have the book Lindsey mentioned but haven't read it. I should. I think we need to know our limits...and be okay with them. And the people in our lives will understand that. And if they don't...that's their problem, not yours. So like Kathy, I don't expect responses to every single comment...I understand being busy and getting behind!

[Anna]

Oh I would be staring at that sweet little face too, he's adorable. I get behind as well...I don't think it's a problem...as long as you can squeeze in time with family and friends and to do some knitting, everything else will be done when possible :-)

[cmvs]

i think i am the queen of perpetually behind these days. moving across an ocean has made me feel consistently far and hopelessly unable to reconnect. i hope i can get my act together one of these days.
until then, you're right, sweet isaac is an absolutely wonderful thing to dwell on!

[quirkygranolagirl]

ummm...what was i going to write? that little boy is so stinking cute that i can't focus.....oh yeah...how do i keep up? well, i'm commenting on a post from february 28th. *that's exactly how well i keep up!*