At this point I’m not planning to restart the storytelling group in the fall. We easily agreed to put it on-hold for the summer (there are very few members involved enough to “vote” anymore), and I expected we’d start again once school began, but now I think my focus has shifted.

I may have mentioned before (who remembers this?) that Jay wanted me to keep my GKP (Gordian Knot Productions) work limited to two things.

He said this earlier in the year (or late last year?) when I began expressing interest in pursuing some freelance writing projects. I didn’t feel ready to drop teaching or storytelling, so I chose not to pick up the new ball.

But now things are shifting again. I’ve been pulled back more and more to writing. It’s an aspect of my personality I’ve been aware of for a long time: the more time I spend on something, the more I love it/want to do it. (This does not, unfortunately, apply so much to the have-to-dos like housework.) Continue reading →

My body let me know at the beginning of the weekend that I pushed it too hard last week– the first week Jay was back at work full-time. I won’t belabor how, but I found it frustrating the same way I’ve found certain people frustrating. Two (maybe three?) jobs in a row I had as a teenager, I got in trouble/reprimanded for things, not when they happened, but when the boss/supervisor had collected enough other (also un-reprimanded) infractions to have a load to dump.

Very stressful, emotionally.

What I found so frustrating wasn’t that they were scolding me, but that they seemed to expect me to know certain things in advance of the correction. Continue reading →

Currently Reading The No-Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers and Preschoolers By Elizabeth Pantley see related

I’m so hopeful It’s only been 2-days in a row, but it bodes well for being alone in-charge of 3 little ones

I’ll know “for-real” starting next week, but we’ve had (what I hope are) some break-throughs in the last couple days. Elisha’s sleep-schedule (such as it is) is beginning to mesh well with the girls’. What I mean, is that he lets me put him to sleep before I have to put the girls to nap or to bed at night, so I only have to deal with two tired (potentially fussy) kids at a go. *Huge* blessing. I’m used to dealing with two. Continue reading →

My mother-in-law e-mailed the other day, asking for clarification on our due date. Jay’s e-mailed response: “The official due date is the 10th. But Amy has been feeling that he might come early. It might just be wishful thinking though.”

I know it’s wishful thinking. And every-other-day I feel totally relaxed (Even comfortable, almost!), and resigned to waiting.

Then I want it so much to be *now* that I start mentally reviewing what we might try next to speed things up… even though I know that “nothing really works,” despite the rumors.

*sigh*

At least I feel pretty sure he won’t go over.
(“Famous last words.”)

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