We all know Google is an amazing resource.  And Siri.  And Alexa.  But none have quite given me exactly what I want.  Because what I want is not simple.  I want direct answers to my questions with all factors of my life taken into consideration.

For Example:

When I ask about how best to keep up with large(r) families, I mostly get religious blogs with people who have 7 or more kids (all homeschooled).  Or beautiful Pinterest posts of organized charts and cubbies and laundry rooms (I’m slightly suspicious that most of these people either do not have kids or “claim” to have kids, but really they are off in Switzerland at boarding school.)

• I have four.  Four, active, loving, energy-filled short people running around our abode.  Just barely considered a “large” family, but judging by my laundry room and grocery bill, we are definitely pushing the larger boundaries.  We are faith-based, but not overly religious (per say).  And I find I am more of a sucker for reading about and planning for our well-organized and run life rather than actual implementation.

When I research homeschooling (this is a new adventure we are pursuing…don’t ask me why, because I’m not sure…yet), I again get mostly religious blogs with some secular and most with an abundance of kids.  All of which are homeschooled.

• I have two kids in public school, 1 in private and am only homeschooling one of our kiddos and only for a year-and-a-half until we send her to private school for middle and high school.  I am not doing faith-based learning.  She was not struggling in school.  We love our public school and, in fact, I am (in a former life) a public school teacher.  We do not have any of the “normal” reasons.

When I plead with Google to show me how to work clean eating into our meal schedule, I get overly complicated meals with odd ingredients and small portions.  Where, because of the number of people in my house, I would have to grocery shop twice a week and cook, meal plan, grocery shop a majority of my days.

• I have six people to feed, four of which are kids (although not too picky…thank goodness), with 4-7 different soccer practices each week, two baseball practices, one gymnastics lesson (ALL inexplicably smack-dab in the middle of dinner time) and 2-4 games each weekend.  Not to mention the “normal” daily chaos of keeping up with six people, a house, a dog, multiple fish, two gerbils and a partridge in a pear tree (the partridge is free to a good home.  Just kidding, we don’t have a partridge…that I’m aware of.)

So how long will it be before I can enter my life’s complete demographics into Google, or Siri or Alexa and then, when I get my answers, I will just be given information that pertains to my life.  Yes, I know I could synthesize the information I get.  Take all that I read and figure out how to make it relevant to my life circumstance.  But is it too much to ask…in-between all the cooking, meal planning, grocery shopping, homeschool planning, laundry doing and sports running to have something NOT take an ounce of my intellectual stamina?  Please Google.  My brain is tired.

That is all.  I have to get back to making a grocery list of foods that Google told me were healthy and I get to imagine, for a brief second, that I will actually have the time and desire to cook all of it from scratch this week.  (*See above re: strong planning/weak implementation.)

Maybe I’ll ask Siri instead…