Procrastination

Dear Sophie,

Mommy has been procrastinating writing on this blog because I felt like I didn't have something to say, didn't have time to say it, or life just plain got in my way.

You actually know a lot about procrastination yourself. "Book...one book," you'll tell me after we've read a mountain of them before bed and I've told you it's time to go to sleep. Sometimes when I try to put pants on you or change your diaper, you roll around and try to crawl or run away. Procrastination.

The key will be learning which things you can wait to do and which things you can't. And then there are the things you can wait to do, but it's better if you do them sooner. Take my back as an example. Thanks to my pregnancy with you, I have a pretty bad back. So, after over two years of pain in my back, I decided to go see a doctor. I should have started going to someone two years ago! Procrastination can cause some "shoulda, coulda, wouldas"...I have much bigger shoulda, coulda, wouldas in my life right now, but I won't get into those details.

What I'm trying to teach you is that you can procrastinate things if you want, but you're the only one who will suffer in the end. When you try to procrastinate nap time, you melt down and we don't have fun. When you procrastinate eating dinner, you get super hungry and that's not fun for anyone either. And later in life, you shouldn't procrastinate doctors appointments, writing thank you notes (mommy is terrible with doing those) and tidying up the house. And just because I haven't listed it here, doesn't mean it's an okay task to procrastinate...okay? :)

If you feel like it's something that nags you (ie. you can hear my voice in your head telling you to go do it NOW), go do it. Not because I told you to or someone else told you to, but because only you will be hurt by not doing it or will benefit from doing it.

I love you!