SUMMER IS HERE

On my last posting, I made the statement that I would be writing everyday about a different character of my book Chasing Dragons: Vengeance and my thoughts about each one. Okay, so I need to make an amendment to that post. It's summer and my kids are home. I feel that the amount of time I have allotted to writing has fallen to a dastardly level of almost zero. So, here is what I really am going to do. When I have the time I will do my above statement.

My days have suddenly become, "Mom, take me here. Can you do this? Can we do that?" as soon as I walk through the door from work at 11:30 am. Six hour work days at six days a week, adding the hours of child care of my four kids and the upkeep of the house. Plus there is the fact that it is summer and yard work calls. Especially my garden. It took my daughter (who will be eight tomorrow) and I two days to plant all the seeds. I must mention the fact that my husband did till the ground for us. Which, I am sure was no easy feat seeing how we had been bombarded with so much rain that our garden was really late this year. I had to wait two more days for the ground to dry enough for us to even plant.

At fifteen and fourteen, my oldest two are stepping up and doing their responsibilities more often without my ordering them to. But again they are fifteen and fourteen and they do still need reminding.

This has been a busy start for the summer. I haven't watched television in over a week and the work on my new book has fallen behind. I am still on chapter four. And the only time I get to myself is in the car driving to and from work. But I smile because I think it would be a sin to complain. How many people wish they could have kids to whine about and how many people wish they had a job. I am lucky that my job, because it is six days a week, gives me the opportunity to spend the amount of hours with my family that I do.

So forgive me as my blogs may be sporadic this summer until school starts back up or I find a routine that is agreeable. I am smiling at those last few words. And while the writing may suffer, at least I will be watching my kids have fun and my garden grow.

And this is where I first started when I began my blog last year. With my garden.