My Space

We had a rough morning at Gymboree… read all about it.

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Fellow HDYDI mom Krissy had a fun idea for a feature this week: showing off where we blog!  Really, it’s a “how do you do it?” question, answered.  How DO you manage to blog with twins running around?  Some people hole up with a laptop in their bedroom after the kids go to bed, some have a space all to their own.  Head on over to Krissy’s blog and find links to see where other people do their best work!

My desk is in a room off of the living room that we share with the kids.  Our boxy colonial has a small addition on either side of the house.  One side is a small, unheated sunroom off of the dining room.  On the opposite side is a (heated, thankfully) family room / den / office, etc.  If you’re facing the house, it’s on the right.

When we moved in, this room was hideously dark and dingy. Cheap wood paneling, no insulation, dark and dirty carpeting, no overhead lighting.  Bleh. [The decor in the photo is as it was the day we first saw the house, not our stuff.]

But we gutted it, and now we love it.  Bright and sunny.  It’s not a big room, 8 feet wide by 16 feet long.  Pre-kids, M and I had our desks and computers at opposite ends of the room.  When the babies arrived, we added a Pack & Play, but not much changed until we rearranged it into half-playroom half-office last June.

On one side, it’s an L-shaped desk where both M and I sit (he’s to my right).  It can be a little cozy when we’re both sitting there, but it works.  And we have a gate blocking it all off.  In some configurations, the kids figured out how to move the gate and get to the other side, but we seem to be in a good situation for the moment.

And yes, I cleaned up for you people.  It was much, much worse a few days ago.  My computer of choice is an iMac that I got last spring to replace my slow PowerBook from several years ago.  It just couldn’t handle the ridiculous quantity of photos I take.

The view from my computer (literally, taken with the built-in iSight camera) is of the playroom-half.  Frequently one or both kids can be seen leaning on the gate, shouting “uppie uppie uppie uppie!”  And I try not to injure myself as I leap over the fence to break up the latest fight over some toy or even a travel pack of wipes. They can have a room full of toys, but they both want the wipes! Ah, toddlers.

Anyways, this is where I blog.  When the kids are up, I get brief moments in my little corner.  When they’re napping, I’m probably sitting right there, feeding my internet addiction.

So, what about you? Where do you blog?