I’m not going to lie, I have been such a slacker lately. I
have been too busy to write, too busy to read and too busy to stop and breathe.
That is all about to change.
I took a new, totally amazing, totally rewarding, totally WORTH IT job back in August this year, and we have been trying to perfect our family schedule ever since then. The new job gives me mornings with Liam when Brian is working and then time with the both of them in the evenings after 6 pm, but there is no time for “me” time. I used to write in the mornings after Brian took Liam to work and then have my alone time with Liam in the evenings from 4-6pm before Brian got home but not anymore. Now my mornings are filled with giggles and tickles, fixing breakfast and packing lunches, and occasionally sleeping in with my snuggle bug Liam.
I WOULD NOT, WILL NOT, CHANGE THEM.
So where is the time to write and paint and read?
I took a new, totally amazing, totally rewarding, totally WORTH IT job back in August this year, and we have been trying to perfect our family schedule ever since then. The new job gives me mornings with Liam when Brian is working and then time with the both of them in the evenings after 6 pm, but there is no time for “me” time. I used to write in the mornings after Brian took Liam to work and then have my alone time with Liam in the evenings from 4-6pm before Brian got home but not anymore. Now my mornings are filled with giggles and tickles, fixing breakfast and packing lunches, and occasionally sleeping in with my snuggle bug Liam.
I WOULD NOT, WILL NOT, CHANGE THEM.
So where is the time to write and paint and read?
When I started the new job and started coming home after 6 pm
to dinner on the table, followed by bath time then reading time, then brush
teeth and bed time---well there was no time left.
I sit here now writing only because my little blonde bear has a horrible virus/plague and has spent the past three days napping on the sofa. Soon though he will be back to his normal bouncy self and then we will be back to the normal schedule.
I sit here now writing only because my little blonde bear has a horrible virus/plague and has spent the past three days napping on the sofa. Soon though he will be back to his normal bouncy self and then we will be back to the normal schedule.
So as I explained to Brian in so many words, “if I do not
write I do not function” and he looked at me with those “I don’t understand but
I will fix it” eyes…..a plan developed. I will deliver Liam early to our sitter
once a week before work and have an hour to write then as well as turning off
the TV one night a week for BOTH of us to write, read or whatever. A mandatory
no TV night.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Since I believe with everything in me that writers have to
be readers, I have been looking for books to motivate and move me, or just make
me enjoy the read, and I have developed my LIST. (Queen of lists right here.)
Like any good list, it is primed and ready for expansion; so I am willing to hear input as well but what I have so far is this:
Like any good list, it is primed and ready for expansion; so I am willing to hear input as well but what I have so far is this:
Eleanor & Park—by Rainbow Rowell
The Book Thief – by Markus Zusak
How to Raise Selfless Kids in a Self-Centered World—by Dave Stone
Give Them Grace—by Elyse M Fitspatrick and Jessica Thompson
Radical—by David Platt
The Book Thief – by Markus Zusak
How to Raise Selfless Kids in a Self-Centered World—by Dave Stone
Give Them Grace—by Elyse M Fitspatrick and Jessica Thompson
Radical—by David Platt
TV is a HUGE waste of time and nothing is more valuable than your time. Good decision. -Gerald
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