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Friday, February 29, 2008It's Leap Day, After All...And I suppose that's reason enough to blog. One can imagine the claptrap that's out and about today, though -- 29 of this, 29 of that, 29 forever. Ad nauseum. So in an attempt to be slightly more creative (emphasis on "slightly"), I offer you the following list: 29 Reasons To Have A Baby And Pursue A Writing Career After Forty 1. Unless they stand too close, people will assume that I'm much younger and more energetic than I really am. 2. I have two built-in excuses for maintaining my mostly-hermit existence: "I'm nursing a baby" and "I'm a writer." If one of them doesn't cut it, I can fall back on the other. 3. Folks look at the baby in my arms instead of the gray at my roots. 4. Afternoon naptime is a perfect time for getting some writing done. Unless I'm the one who's asleep. 5. Two words: Older. Siblings. Two other words: Built-in. Babysitters. 6. When I'm not having a productive writing day, I can blame the baby. 7. When I'm not having a good mommy day, I can blame it on the writing. 8. Having a cleavage again after 40 is a boost to the feminine ego. 9. Except when nothing fits right. Which is a perfect excuse to buy new clothing. 10. Posting a picture of the baby counts as having blogged for the day. 11. People feel like they need to admire me. Which, though misguided, is their prerogative. 12. I don't feel quite so old when twenty-something puppies land big book deals. 13. I may actually have a picture book in print by the time my baby's old enough to read it. 14. And if that doesn't happen, I won't have to wait too much longer to read it to my grandkids. 15. When I shop at organic food stores, nobody thinks it's weird that I have a baby. 16. I have a husband who's mature enough to regularly help out with the baby. This time. 17. When the World of Publishing makes me feel like going sociopath, I can cuddle my baby instead. The World -- all of it -- goes away. 18. Spit-up working its way deep inside my keyboard is a viable excuse not to write on any given day. 19. Any moment now, a publisher is going to snatch me up as the next hot Amazing True Story Of My Life author. 20. I haven't gotten this much reading done since I nursed my last baby eight years ago. 21. I didn't have any taste in clothing until I was about 39 years old. Now I can shop at Old Navy and buy baby/mama matching clothes. And I'm old enough not to care if someone thinks it looks stupid. (No, really.) 22. We have one more dependent to claim. So I can continue not making a salary as a writer and still say I've contributed to the family income this year. 23. My dad has one more thing to brag about (he's already been bragging about my writing for years). 24. I can watch old family videos without crying about the days-gone-by. The whole diaper-drool-baby-laughter thing is still going on here. 25. I can share baby advice with Very Young New Mommies and they won't automatically assume that there's no way I could possibly remember what it was like when mine were little. 26. It doesn't matter if I smell like baby-stink. I can write in the privacy of my own office. 27. I have acquired a real "business voice," which I can flip into at a moment's notice. So I'll be ready when that Big Phone Call comes. 28. Unless I can't hear my cell phone ringing over the cries of a hungry baby. 29. In which case I will console myself with fine wine and organic chocolate, because I'm old enough to know that they're both good for me, and wise enough to find any excuse possible to ask for them -- like, being over 40, having a baby, and aspiring to be a widely read, beloved, pre-geriatric children's author. |
About Me
I am: Mother to five stunningly individualistic children... Writer of young adult fantasy... Passionate advocate for Women At Home... Madly in love with my husband... In need of Organic Gourmet Chocolate on a regular basis. I've got a Paypal account if you'd like to contribute to the cause....
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5of my readers are feeling chatty:
Glad to your husband is mature enough this round!
I can relate to oh so many of these even though I was only a week off 38 when Miss Rebecca was born lol
I hope your book is published in time for our wee-est sweeties to read or else I'm going to have to have another one just to read it to! ;-)
Thanks for the smile (again)! And best wishes with the book. I can't wait to read it to my little sweeties!
LMSO!!! That was good reading.
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