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This afternoon I was excited because today was the first day I felt like my calendar had softened and my to-do list had become manageable. I COULD use the few newly freed minutes to be productive, but my first impulse is…to blog. So as we did schoolwork today, my mind wandered to what I could write here tonight. The funny thing is that I have the FEAR of writer’s block, but rarely experience it except when I am stressed.   If I am stressed, my brain’s first defense mechanism is creative shutdown. Thanks brain!   It isn’t like doing something creative might be stress-relieving or anything. ALERT:   rant end. As the day progressed, no fully developed ideas had popped up.   No big deal.   I have always said that as long as I am the mom of three boys, I will never be sans story. We ate dinner, the boys took baths, my husband and I took a walk, I answered email…still nothing. I finished answering all my email. The boys were about to go to bed. I had nothing. Rhett(6) called from upstairs:   Mom!   Bring your camera upstairs. Why? I built something I want you to take a picture of. OK. I went upstairs and followed his very specific instructions on what camera angle he wanted for 7 different shots of a Lincoln Log tower he built.   Finally I was released from his photography direction. I turned and saw the crowd of LEGO mini-figures {pictured above} and said to Rhett that I might as well take a picture of this too while I was here. He told me that Reid had put those there so he could count them.   Reportedly there were hundreds {but suspiciously no one had a CLEAR number despite the fact that they were placed there for the sole purpose of counting}. I laid down on the floor to get a close-up shot. Ummm…Why is Harry Potter wearing a bra? Oh, we don’t like him so we make him dress that way. Alrighty, that blog post just wrote itself.