pondering procrastination

Is the tendency to procrastinate genetic? My brother and I are both habitual procrastinators. Intellectually I know it's easier to go ahead and get it done. But I'd rather play now and work later. Is it because I know I'll never run out of work? I'm a WAHM. There's always a long list of things that need to be done. I can't make myself work at my desk if the house is a pit. If the house is clean, I sit down at my desk. . .and get a call to pick up sick kids. Or something. When I mop a floor, a juice spill is inevitable within an hour. If I spend 20 minutes cleaning the bathroom, I spend 40 minutes reconstructing the kitchen after my toddlers decide to get their own snack. If I sneak to the desk when they are engrossed in a video they are in my lap within 5 minutes begging to play on "Mommy's comphuher".

I begged God for these children. I was scared to death I would never have them. When I got them I was afraid I wouldn't get to be home with them. Now I'm griping about having to work with them around? What is the matter with me? Of course I'd rather play with my kids than work on my taxes.

Sounds like I just talked myself into further (justifiable) procrastination.

Intelligent Designer

What do you do when you can't breathe, therefore can't sleep? (and inexplicably have no coma-inducing antihistamines in the house) If you succumb to peer pressure as easily as I do, you start a blog.

So here's what's stuck in my brain. I just finished reading The Case for a Creator by Lee Strobel. Now I don't remember ever doubting that God created. . .everything. But I have tried to reconcile Genesis 1-2 with what I have been taught about evolutionary theory, and never got them to jive completely. Not a faith-shaker for me, but curious. I'm no science geek. Guess what? A lot of what we learned about evolution in school has been disproved or has no evidence. No big suprise there--except that it's still printed in current textbooks. What fascinates me is all the detail support for "Intelligent Design". We are fearfully and wonderfully made. Our environment is carefully crafted. From the Big Bang (yes, but had to have been initiated by a source--GOD) to our solar system (rare qualities, our sun has. Jupiter protects us from asteroids. The moon is precisely placed to keep the earth tilted so we are warm and comfy). Primordial slime as a source of life? Never recreated in a lab. Evolution from simple animals to complex--nope. Ever heard of the Cambrian Explosion? Almost all the major animal forms showed up all at once in the Cambrian Era (after the dinosaurs died). Now the book didn't go into the controversy over the age of the earth if you take the Biblical timeline literally. He takes the view that it doesn't matter when, but who. That's easy enough for me, since my coping argument has always been that a day in Genesis could be years upon years. But what argument do I have for my neighbor down the street who says the earth can't be more than 6000 years old and dinosaur fossils are faked?

This is what I can't get out of my head.