Thankful Thursday

[dampscribbler]

I'm so thankful that school has begun again. Miss M, now age 7 and in second(!!) grade, is pretty happy with her new teacher and is happy to be hanging out with girlfriends again. She's been much nicer the past few days, and I'm afraid I have to admit that I have been too. I'm glad to be getting back into a routine and catching up on tidying some of the messes that have developed in the house over the past few months. I've told myself I can't clean for more than an hour a day, because in the past I've made myself kind of crazy trying to get lots of things cleaned up "before I start working," and ultimately neither happens to my satisfaction. So I'm trying bits of things -- a bit of writing each day, a bit of cleaning, a bit of errands or appointments out of the house. So far it's going okay, although I'm still neglecting the writing time (old habits die hard, but eventually, with effort and attention, they do change to new habits.) I'm also kind of hoping to start a new reading/writing blog, but that's down the road a piece. First thing is to get to my story and get it on the page and have some fun with it. Once I'm confident that my writing time is somewhat stable and won't be sacrificed, then I may try adding something else to the mix.

And with that, I'm going to go do some errands. I did cleaning, I'll do errands, then writing time until 3:00 when M comes home from school.