Happy new school year
February 8, 2011
Wow! I just realized that it has been quite some time since I've been here! There has been such a lot happening writing wise - sent off a query for The Colours of Sunset. HM&B asked me for the ms and it came back with suggestions, and also a request for Jack Wolfe and Melody Charm. All good. Very excited.
And the next day we bought a house...
And then...
we had to clean our current house up, paint, garden, see real estate agents, photographs, lisinting, open for inspections etc, etc. School year ending, kids on holidays... You get the idea.
And on the track of school holidays, I do enjoy the kids home. I do. Don't get me wrong. I don't have to leave for school and worry about picks up and play dates and activities after school, but let me say that seven weeks of doing kids things every day, playing badminton, monopoly, trampolining dolls, role playing and seeing every kids movie out, listening to non stop television and wii games, screaming, mum he punched me, mum, I'm hungry, mum I want... my mind, not to mention my pelvic floor muscles were not coping. After all, there is only so much a mum can do.
Now school is back - day three - and I have edited half of Jack Wolfe and Melody Charm - more than which it took me more than seven weeks with the kids to achieve. I have my mind back for six hours, not to mention my sanity. Now I can write, edit and get somewhere.
BTW - have sent off Broome to the 5DI contest with RWA. Fingers crossed.
I'm going to add some little piccies of the Chinese mines from Jamieson which features in the story of Jack Wolfe and Melody Charm right now, but I'm not going to tell you where they are up there. All I can say that, if you're not a local, you won't know where to look. Don;t get lost in the bush. They are in fact, very dangerous, so I need to keep it a secret, but enjoy the pics!
And the next day we bought a house...
And then...
we had to clean our current house up, paint, garden, see real estate agents, photographs, lisinting, open for inspections etc, etc. School year ending, kids on holidays... You get the idea.
And on the track of school holidays, I do enjoy the kids home. I do. Don't get me wrong. I don't have to leave for school and worry about picks up and play dates and activities after school, but let me say that seven weeks of doing kids things every day, playing badminton, monopoly, trampolining dolls, role playing and seeing every kids movie out, listening to non stop television and wii games, screaming, mum he punched me, mum, I'm hungry, mum I want... my mind, not to mention my pelvic floor muscles were not coping. After all, there is only so much a mum can do.
Now school is back - day three - and I have edited half of Jack Wolfe and Melody Charm - more than which it took me more than seven weeks with the kids to achieve. I have my mind back for six hours, not to mention my sanity. Now I can write, edit and get somewhere.
BTW - have sent off Broome to the 5DI contest with RWA. Fingers crossed.
I'm going to add some little piccies of the Chinese mines from Jamieson which features in the story of Jack Wolfe and Melody Charm right now, but I'm not going to tell you where they are up there. All I can say that, if you're not a local, you won't know where to look. Don;t get lost in the bush. They are in fact, very dangerous, so I need to keep it a secret, but enjoy the pics!
Posted by Charmaine Attalla.
