Last August when the brick and mortar school thing was a clear no-go, life went from “la la la, kid in school half time, other kid ready for pre-school” to “holy crap, home-schooling for both, now how do I juggle?”
Well, the answer has been that some things had to go. I had already dropped my volunteer commitment to NINC because it was a much bigger time commitment than I’d expected. I dropped my Romancing the Blog column. I dropped Wicked Writers. I am streamlining to focus on what I do here on this site, and I’ll also be involved in another group blog in the new year that will be a pretty light commitment that lets me try something different.
I’m not making big plans to do much outside of home, family, and writing. I can’t. Over time that will shift, but for now, I am needed here. And I need to write or my brain will explode. So those are the priorities.
Basically, it’s time to focus on the priorities and keep life simple.
Also, figure out how to satisfy the five year old’s desire to understand “how people get made” without using words like “blastocyst”. Which I’ve already screwed up on. I can’t help it, it came out. I also said, “allele”. My kids will be traumatized at this rate.
You make me chuckle. Blastocyst. Allele. *snort* I am gonna have to look that up. Clearly, I need a science review.
My 12 year old niece asked me ‘What’s a prostitute?’ This was in the lobby of The Cheesecake Factory. My eyes widened. I answered her with a vague reference to low self esteem and told her we’d discuss it after lunch.
I found out that 12 year olds have a short memory cause she was on a Hannah Montana tangent after lunch.
I am a science geek. One of my favorite books of all time is The Way Things Work. : ) So far, they are unfazed by hearing alleles exist and determine the curliness of their hair. Let’s hope they don’t ask about prostitutes! Although if they do, I’m stealing your “low self-esteem” answer.
Good luck with the streamlining. I’m also trying to streamline my life, to declutter my life (and my apartment), so I can focus more on writing.
P.S. Are you sweating with Sven this go ’round?
I am not. I’m wrapping up the contracted stuff before me, and figuring out how I’ll go forward. I have a tentative split schedule planned that will allow me to write at what I think will be a manageable, non-crazy-making pace, but I’m not going to do anything at some pre-determined pace like BIAW, 70 days, or whatever.
Decluttering will do your brain good! Seriously, clean out a closet and be amazed.
My son asked me about oral sex. I won’t get into the specific question he asked me….but it gets worse. Much worse. (keep in mind this is the very bright ADD 12 YO who gets stuff I had no clue of at his age). He scares me LOL
Ack! There’s something to look forward to. : O