The dry spell
I suffered a dry spell after our second child. A major one. One I imagine the Sahara Desert to be like. Long. Flat. Never ending.
I just didn’t feel like it anymore. I was too tired. It didn’t hold my attention. I would crawl into bed after a day of wiping drippy noses and picking cheerios off the floor and I would just stare at them. I finally put them away in a box. I didn’t want to be reminded.
Apparently this is common to mothers of young children.
Now I can’t get enough. I have all kinds at my bedside – historical, period, chic lit, classics. I read whatever I can get my hands on. Though I’m still not much of a fan of suspense.
Have you ever had a dry spell? 😉
*This post was originally published in 2009 — but it’s still one of my favourites!
Photo credit: Hamed
Knackered Mother | 29th Oct 10
Read this last time round, still rings true. Reading One Day at the moment and have a leaning tower on the bedside all calling ‘Pick me! Pick me!’. Trouble is, I get sidetracked by lite reading – Grazia, Daily Mail online. Oh, don’t tell me I’m on my own, purlease….x
Tilly | 29th Oct 10
Before I had the kids I’d get through about 50 books a year. I love reading. Unfortunately at the moment I tend to eventually get to the end of a book only to have forgotten what happened at the beginning. So major reading is on hold for a while.
Expat Mum | 29th Oct 10
I read a page if it kills me. That’s because I now have teens who prowl around long after the 7 year old has gone to bed. Be warned – you have a period of about ten years between the little stage and the teen stage. Either end it’s knackerdness and lack of sleep.
Make the most of your time now ladies – do away with the dry spell!
(Ooh, so many blog posts could be spawned from this one. Excuse the pun.)
Mykol | 28th Oct 10
And here I thought you were talking about the big O.
Suzanne | 28th Oct 10
I’m also having a dry spell at the moment and I hate it.
I have various books lined up to read but I am just too tired.
I usually read before bed but at the moment as soon as my head hits the pillow, that’s it, out like a light.
I am confident that the time will come around again – soon!
I love getting lost in a good book.
Baby Genie | 28th Oct 10
Oh yes dry spells, I have just come out of one that’s lasted over two years….exercise.
I ran for the first time this week, and then I ran again.
Today I cannot walk, or sit, or bend down. But I ran, and I panted and I sweated.
It felt great.
nappyvalleygirl | 28th Oct 10
I didn’t read at all after having Little boy 1 – for months – but am making up for it now. I am a regular down at the library, and then there’s Book Club (slogan: what happens in Book Club stays in Book Club).
Lorraine The Party Times | 27th Oct 10
great post – obviously didn’t end the way I expected! Have a toddler that doesn’t seem to need much sleep so plenty of dry spells in this house… x
Domestic goddesque | 27th Oct 10
I’m still trying to emerge from my post-baby dry-spell. the writing is 9just about) coming. The reading? Not so much. It’s a great post. I can see why you like it!
Calif Lorna | 27th Oct 10
I’ve just finished reading Never Let Me Go which made me have a nightmare about having my organs removed because I’d had children with an American. Think I might go on a self enforced dry spell to avoid more nightmares!
EmmaK | 27th Oct 10
No I’ve never had a dry spell…I am totally book addicted …at least two a week ….mainly mysteries esp Kurt Wallander mysteries and also non fiction tomes about ‘the history of the sanitary towel’ and stuff like that!
Rosie Scribble | 27th Oct 10
That’s funny. Apparently romance novels are a good way of breaking a dry spell, so I’ve been told.
Hannah | 27th Oct 10
Ahh… dry spells…. On the reading front and otherwise…
Great post 😉
I miss reading. I have a whole bookcase of books to get through, but I just need to turn a page and I’m zonked!
Hannah (via BMB) x
http://www.metalmummy.co.uk
Sarah | 27th Oct 10
I’m having one now! I miss reading, but can’t cope with anything much more that the news and blogs. When I’m over the baby stage I shall resume. I’ve had dry spells with both my other children – where I’m reading only picture books, mostly half chewed and made of thick cardboard! When I get back in the flow I feel just like a desert must after the rains – totally new and refreshed. Enjoy your reading x