Friday, June 24, 2011

Endless Summer


It’s June 24. 

Do you know what that means?

It’s the last day of school.

Don’t even get me going on “where has the time gone” or “I can’t believe it’s the end of June already!” The last ten months have flown by at 186,000 miles per second, and now we're suddenly teetering on the brink of summer vacation.  This means massive schedule changes for everyone here in the household.

I’ve kept up my weekly blogging pretty religiously, even after the Junior Mint was born in April, but now, even I, Master Tactician of Time Management that I am, must concede that I'm out-matched.

I don’t know what I thought I was going to do – maybe figure out a way to invent a 25th hour in the day – but with four kids at home 24/7, the plain fact is, things are going to be a bit dodgy here until school starts up again in September.
 
So.

I’ve decided that I’m going to let things descend into happy chaos for the next few weeks (possibly longer). Yes, the grass is going to get a little tall here at the blog. The posts are going to be shorter and more sporadic. I’ve got a new WiP underway and what little time I’ll have to write, I’m going to spend on that. It’s kind of like on Star Trek when the captain shouts, “Divert all power to main shields!” 

Power diverting, in progress. Stand by...
Yes, that’s what I’ll be doing. Diverting all my power to the WiP. I know you guys understand, especially my comrades with young children at home. Sometimes you've got to power through and carry on and all that. But sometimes you’ve got to dial it back and run through the sprinkler shouting “Freedom!”

I’ll still be on Twitter semi-daily. Hopefully we can chat over there (I’m @KlipMart – come on by and join in the fun). I’ll also still be reading blogs so keep up the good work, everyone. I hope to be a far better commenter than I've been in recent months. 



Wishing you sunshine and popsicles until summer’s end,

Kristen

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Happy summer vacation! :) Same choices here even though my kids are a lot older -- daughter home from college but everything still changes! Summer's awesome!
Happy summer! I can totally understand (though I only have two) how hectic things get. This is my first summer as a two kiddos parent and I'm already exhausted XD
I need to spend more time with the wip, too. It's been sorely neglected. Once I turn in this revision I've been working on, it'll be full thrusters!
I do understand. Even now my baby is squawking at me, which means blog reading for this morning is at an end :(
I hear ya sista! I am feeling super burnt out on blog life this week. I can manage the once-a-week post, but it's all the blog reading that I have trouble keeping up with.

I was just talking to my husband the other night, by the way, about the surf movie "Endless Summer." I just saw 180 South on Netflix the other night (first TV I've watched in more than two months) and it reminded me of Endless Summer. Good luck with the munchkins, and I'll see you on Twitter as well as here when you post.
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Renee Collins · 718 weeks ago

lol, I love the Star Trek analogy. It's perfect. Summer is a great time to live and do. Blogging is for boring, home-bound winter days. :)
Yes, divert all power to the main shields AND run through the sprinklers! Love it! :)
Summer holidays here in the U.K. start in July; school resumes in August. Crazy, isn't it?

I too am going the minimalist blog route, now that I'm working and trying to polish my ms. Something has to give! Happy summer -- and I'll see you on Twitter!

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