A few weeks ago, my sister told me that she doesn’t read my blog anymore because new entries are so few and far between. She’s right, so I thought I would take this opportunity to list all the things going on in my life that are preventing me from being a more proactive blogger at present.

Without further ado, I present Mo’s life, 2008 style.

• Sunday mornings: As of this week, teaching Sunday School for 3rd-5th graders. But only every other month, since I’ll be alternating with another teacher.
• Sunday nights: Weekly Bible study with my sister-in-law. A top priority.
• Monday nights: A script writing class at a local community college, in preparation for an upcoming project I will be working on with a friend.
• Tuesday nights: Kent’s weekly city council meetings, and my turn to hold down the fort at home with the kids.
• Wednesday nights: Church. A new series titled “Raising Respectful Kids in a Disrespectful World” starts next week. I’m eagerly looking forward to it.
• Thursday nights: Literacy tutoring.

In the rest of my free time (i.e., late nights and weekends), I somehow have to squeeze in the following:

• A freelance editing/desktop publishing project that I’m currently working on.
• Preparing for the weekly Bible study.
• Preparing for the Sunday School class lessons.
• Preparing assignments for my literacy student.
• Alumni interviews for my alma mater university.
• Homework for the script writing class.
• Research for the related project with a friend.

Other extracurricular activities that haven’t started yet, but will soon, include:

• Creating a reunion booklet for my high school class’s 20 year reunion.
• Assisting with the development a new Sunday School curriculum, since curriculum development happens to be my specialty. Of course my focus is job training for adults, not Sunday School for kids, but many of the underlying instructional principles are the same.
• A return to weekly soccer practice and games for Noah.
• Preparation for a conference presentation I’ll be giving in March. Which is technically work related, except I’m not finding much time to get to it at work.
• And the best one of all, the feather in my cap—I’ve been invited to participate in an author signing at a conference in April. It will be the official launch for the e-learning best practices book that my article is included in. Yay for me (and the other contributing authors, of course)!

So I’m a little on the busy side for much blogging these days, but it’s all good. These are all commitments I’ve taken on voluntarily and want to do.

Someday, I’ll probably look back on this entry and be impressed with myself in the extreme at how many balls I managed to keep in the air at one time. Either that, or my family will read back on it and understand why I self destructed. Only time will tell…