This was the first week out of school for my kiddo. We had one eye appointment. One rescheduled hair cut appointment (see results from previous blog). One visit to the zoo. One visit to the aquarium. One visit to the library to sign up for the summer reading program. One friend over to swim and who ultimately spent the night. R's friend is one of the 'quiet' ones, so I actually like having her around. When some of R's other friends hang out, the noise tends to escalate. . . and escalate or the bickering starts. Grrr! Anyhoo, this kid is pretty good to have around. She's one of the middle of five children, so she likes being only one of two kids, I think.
Needless to say, I'm not getting very much rewriting done on my story. I've reworked (changed from mom's POV to child's POV and added emotion) only eleven pages of MOGG. Uh, only 123 more to go! I really would like to get a little farther along than this. But it is what it is and THAT is summer vacation. *sigh* I'll get there. Next week should be a little more organized. I think it is the newness of no school that has the kiddo all freaky-deaky.
Today is another complete write off for the writing stuff. I might get to sit down, but I don't anticipate getting much done. When we take R's friend home I'll be picking up my BIL and his two kiddos from the tire store. They're all coming over to swim. Maybe I can get some gardening done while the play in the frigid pool. No, the new electronic board didn't fix the heater.
I may not be writing, but I HAVE been reading. I finished Smoke in Mirrors by Jayne Ann Krentz, Last Vampire Standing by Nancy Haddock, and middle grade book The Sea of Monsters by Rick Riordan.
Maybe this afternoon I can,
Write on!
My kids haven't done much. My son had a friend spend the night, and they hung out with Nana one day. I've been running back and forth the the tire shop-- hubby got new wheels and tires from a buddy of ours for the beast (our hot rod). He wanted to powder coat them so 1 trip so they could take them apart, back to get them and take them to hubby-then back to tire shop to get them mounted- then had to go back to pick them up. *sighs* Feels like I spent half the week going back and forth, back and forth.
ReplyDeleteBut I did read Lover Avenged by JR Ward. YUM!
ALL parents deserve some sort of achievement award for the amount of time and self they give up for their children. I could never do it. But, at least I REALIZE I could never do it and didn't make the error of having children and then being a crappy parent or the Mommy From Hell.
ReplyDeleteReading is good. I read the first two books, too. Both are wonderful.
ReplyDeleteEnjoy your summer with the kids. You'll figure out your writing time. :)
Oh, and Margie - thank you for being the very first follower on MY new blog! You are a woman of your word.
ReplyDeleteI love reading, Edie. So it's a win-win situation for me. :-) Plus I have TONS of books in my TBR pile. It's just this little deadline to enter the Delacorte contest that seems to be hanging over my head. . .
ReplyDeleteYou bet I am, Jody. If nothing else, I'm as loyal as a dog. :-)
BUT don't you think Minions and Followers are a tad redundent. Personally, I think you are a Minions kinda gal. Minions you can direct, while Followers connote a zombie-like persona. Just a thought.
If I can figure out how to change the other occurrence of the word "Followers", I will do it. I scoured the HTML and couldn't find any place it was hard coded, and according to the code for the widget it SHOULD read "Minions" everywhere.
ReplyDeleteI'm still figuring out all the blogger controls....I'm excited I even figured out how to put an acutal blog up.