… to slack off.

I wear a number of different hats each day (as do most of us homeschoolers, I think). This means that while I’m cooking pancakes, my writerly hat is formulating an article idea, or editing a chapter of that fiction story that will (someday!) see light. Laundry and language arts happen simultaneously in my house, and dinner preparations (if I remember) happen between fractions and driving kids to their obligations.

I’m feeling pulled in too many directions and I’m missing out on the things I really want to be doing. Or need to be doing to feed my soul. So. I’ve given myself the rest of the year off. Seriously. I have one article due in mid December and that will certainly be done on time, but no more of the usual querying for me. If somebody needs me to write something, by all means, let me know. But for the next 5 weeks I’m allowing myself the freedom to stop chasing work, and instead bake cookies, get crafty, and sing off-key Christmas songs.