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Friday, May 23, 2008Blowing Off The BlogThere's no other way to put it, really. In an effort to make excuses, it's not the only thing I've been blowing off lately. There are emails waiting for responses (I think I've got almost 500 messages to weed through in my inbox -- all of them read, many of them delete-able or file-able, a bunch still waiting for answers.). Then there's that little thing called -- ur -- writing that I'm supposed to be working on daily. Daily. Hah! So maybe I'm learning -- possibly for the first time -- that the seven-to-nine-month stretch of a baby's development is a bit on the challenging side. Not from a behavioral standpoint, mind you. Molly is sweet as can be, and is responding well to the word "no." It's just that -- well, she's awfully busy. Awfully, awfully busy. Throw in last week's nursing strike and you can see why I'm dropping the ball on a few things around here. To be fair to myself, I was not pursuing a career when any of my other children were this age. The only "writing" I did was the occasional thank-you note or a humorous poem for an unwitting family member. So. Here I am, floundering. But loving every minute of it. Well, maybe not every minute. This isn't some sort of Donna Reed utopia. But I do have a husband with enough sensitivity to buy me a scoop of Bananas on the Rum in a waffle cone at Ben and Jerry's during Molly's nursing strike. And I've actually cleared off enough of the mess on my desk to have room for my left arm while typing. And...and...and...I think I'm starting to get just the tiniest bit organized. Organized, as in, all I really need is thirty minutes a day to keep myself on track in the writing arena. Thirty minutes! I've been known to write four solid pages in thirty minutes. Yes, it can be done. Despite diapers and eighth grade Grammar tests and gargantuan loads of laundry and no fresh fruit in the house, it can be done. And that's where I've been. Blowing off the blog for a bit, with every intention of not blowing anything off again. It'll happen one day. In the meantime, thanks for checking in. |
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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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