How do they do it?

So yesterday, I started a blog. I started reading them at work when I was pregnant with Badness and I was too tired and sick to walk around the showroom when it was empty. There are quite a few that I read regularly, and those bloggers make me feel a little less alone in the house with the kids. Like this Mom thing is a shared experience. I have great friends, family and a loving if slightly pre-occupied hubby, but the middle of the day when everyone is at work or dealing with their own babies can be a really long time. What I want to know is, what do people do with their kids while they try to type? Try to think? I am hoping that writing here regularly will help me retain a few more brain cells. I'd like to be able to form an intelligent sentence on the rare occasions that I get out without the kids. I'd like to remember how to spell, to use alliteration and metaphors.....I want to find a little piece of the me that I was before I was their mom. Yesterday, the boy turned off the computer in the middle of my post and dumped the garbage can. He dumped the dog's bowl and I had to fish a handful of kibble out of his mouth. He pulled half hubby's binders out of the bookshelf....not that this is unusual behaviour for him, but it's a lot more frustrating when I'm trying to concentrate on something else. I can post while he sleeps, but then a whole lot of other things aren't going to get done around here.