Ummm apparently, I am not.

We have always known that our oldest daughter, Erin, was a bright child, but it wasn’t until we started investigating her potential this past school year, that we realized just how intelligent she is. Her teacher sent home a summer list of brain exercise games that she wanted us to work with her on so that her mind did not disintegrate like quicksand over the months of break.  I basically tucked the list into some random pile of papers for a few weeks and then finally got to ordering some of the games on-line recently.

Both of the girls were excited for the new games to arrive on our doorstep by the big brown UPS truck. They arrived last Saturday morning, just as I was waking up from a mere four-hour nap after working night shift. Erin was adament that she wanted to play one of the games right then and there…she did not care that her perspective opponent was a groggy nightmare. 

She sat me down to play one of the games, “Mastermind” and quickly relayed the simple instructions to me. “Huhhhh??” was all that I could utter. My brain was not grasping the strategy of the game. I am not sure if I can attribute this to the lack of sleep or to my pathetic IQ at this point in my mommy-hood life. 

Frustrated, she flatly said to me, “Mom, in first grade, someone explained this to me once and then I just played it. No biggie.” 

“See if Daddy will play it once so that I can see how it is done and then I can play it with you.” I replied.

So Sky came onto the scene and figured out the game’s strategy in no lie, 10 seconds flat. That math-lete bastard, I tell you. 

Erin sarcastically chortled, ” Daddy, Mom and Megan can’t play these games…they are dumbos”. (She got a talking to later about this comment, Little Miss Smarty Pants…I’ll show you who is in charge.)

And so I sulked off into the living room, with my once smart tail and my bruised ego (I swear I was smart pre-kids!) tucked between my legs. And this is the likes of who I met up with…

I can still play a mean game of Candy Land and Chutes and Ladders.

Even if I did lose. I let her win, but who’s counting?

Besides, if you ask me, us right-brained people are far more interesting than those left-brainers. Who needs them anyway?

As you may have noticed, I have been one lazy blogger…tisk, tisk.

You see, it’s not that I don’t love my fellow bloggers and followers…quite the contrary. I am indebted to you all for reading about my little life and following my photography. But in order to document that very life, I have got to do the living. My focus has purposely and knowingly, shifted this season, to my family. I am pouring my time into them…making them at the top of my list of things to do. Just the way that it should be.

My hubby serves as my blog police force…nagging at my ear, reminding me that there have been extensive time gaps lately in my posts…threatening that I will lose my faithful readers if I don’t up the anty. “Yeah, yeah, I tell him. I’ve got priorities, baby, priorities.” I mean there are only so many hours in the day, right?

I am making it my summer goal to post once or twice a week. I hope that you hang in there with me through the lulls…I sure would miss you if you didn’t.

In the meantime, we have settled over here into the rhythm of summer… sleeping in, A/C on day and night, hours at the pool and swim lessons, day trips to the shore, summer picnics, mandatory “school work” so that our minds don’t ebb into goo, daily doggie walks, working out and simply just being a family. Just the four of us…did I mention that my mom moved out recently? (more on that to come…) Or should I say the five of us…can’t forget the dear ol’ pooch, Reilly.

Until later, gator. I think I hear the chimes of the ice cream man in the neigborhood…