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When Blue first approached the subject of us starting a blog, my very first instinct was "are you nuts?" The reason; two careers, one infant, 1 toddler, and 3 big families. When I think of what I would like to do with my free time (what free time?) blogging was not the first thing on my mind. While I have watched him set time aside to make posts, I find that I'm stuck in my head unable to create the posts that I want to create due to having a human semi-attached to me. She is in the phase of going from being attached to realizing she can have some autonomy outside of my body, however, a permanent accessory I currently have is the Moby or the Tula. I am partial to the infant, I mean I grew her so you know, I will say she is not a speedy eater it is pretty common for me to be breastfeeding for about an hour. While I was driving in the car today, I realized maybe I should try to create posts by doing talk-to-text, and so this is the very first experiment. My Hope is that I will be able to create post while I'm breastfeeding using talk to text instead of having to type them, to be fair a lot of great ideas come to me when I'm breastfeeding, what else am I going to do for six hours a day.

I have to say so far it is going to get some getting used to. I'm going to try a couple of different apps and see which one works better for me, which I will of course let everybody know what I think of them. This is for sure a new skill that I'm going to have to develop, sometimes I’m not the best at developing new skills. For instance, the rest of this post is being typed while she is playing on her playmat, she is really interested in that frog, and she is kicking that fish. Though, X was more partial to the bird. Welcome to my world, I get distracted, and now I am back. Like I was saying, this will take some getting use to.


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