I’d love to write a great blog post here, but I’m already running behind. Allen and Kevin are hosting a webinar on “Top 10 Opportunities for Social Media Engagement” in 59 minutes, and I’m supposed to head down there 10 minutes ago.

However, I’m NEVER alone in our beautiful office these days. As Allen and I hoped and dreamed and planned could happen, I’ve got kid duty. This is a wonderful thing…except I miss work.

Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE being with our two amazing boys, and I’m involved in our business on a daily basis. Allen calls me from the office and we talk client stuff. When he calls, I’m either:

Stacking or unstacking the dishwasher; in the car; at the town beach; hosting a play date; going to or from the gym; grocery shopping; vacuuming (our yellow lab is shedding like CRAZY this summer, and we’ve got a crawling child!); fixing someone’s breakfast/lunch/dinner; elbow-deep in a bathtub; changing a diaper; or in the midst of and/or on the way to some other glamorous act or locale.

When I talk to Allen, I’m in awe of all the things he’s handling on a daily basis. On any given day, he’s smack in the middle of:

Helping to launch a pet loss care franchise; serving as marketing manager and content strategist for a multi-million dollar communications company; writing email campaigns for the world’s most popular 11-inch glam girl; blogging great tips and advice for job seekers and C-level executives; and meeting with any or all of the fine folks at Acorn Creative about one project or another.

As if that all isn’t enough, he’s also the guy handling the thrilling tasks of meeting with our accountant to manage our finances, showing up to countless meetings via phone and in person, blogging for us, and talking to me on the phone about all life issues — re: furnaces, SUV transmissions, disciplining our almost-six-year-old, scheduling doctors appointments for our little guy, coordinating child care and the “date night” that never actually happens…

So yeah. It’s a lot. For both of us. For all of us — you, the reader of this blog post, and us, the “Content Lovers” who manage to blog here and there, in the midst of it all.

And if we can’t find the time to blog, we Tweet. On Twitter.

I Tweet here, and Allen Tweets there.

Because really, that’s more conducive to this crazy, fully-loaded life, ain’t it? 140 characters to say something, anything, just to try to capture a moment of your day, before the moment is lost, and before the day never got recorded in any way whatsoever.

Is it worth it? Does it all add up someday? Does any of it matter?

I guess that’s what I’m going to find out in 21 minutes, during the aforementioned Social Media webinar, hosted by Kevin and Al.

But before I go down to the Acorn Creative offices, I’m going to do a quick Tweet about how much I love and appreciate my dear, sweet, hard working, multi-talented husband. Just in case I forget to tell him when we’re lost in the chaos of all that other stuff that too often gets in the way of the more important things of life.

I may not have hours and days and weeks to thank Allen for everything he does for me and our family and our business and our clients, but I definitely have enough time and focused energy for 140 measly characters.

Ahhhh, it’s a modern-day love story, through and through.

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