Summer begins...

Whew. The last few weeks have been a blur. The boys finished pre-school - our final helping days, field trips, last party, teacher gifts. It was busy and I could scarcely keep track of things. And they turned 5 with a birthday bash. 12 4 and 5 year-olds running around midday, and lots of relatives at night. My in-laws were here. I think we overwhelmed them with how insane things were. Probably scared them off, but it's normal for us here to go, go, go all day long and just collapse at night. We're not very exciting.

Then my oldest friend (not age-wise, but how-long-we've-been-friends-wise) visited with her husband and two little ones. Man, I'm glad my kids are getting older. I'm too tired to deal with three-year old tantrums any more. Five-year old tantrums seem much more manageable. Gives me some time to have a tantrum or two of my own. Just kidding.

Amelia's reaching the end of first grade as well. It's hard to rein in all the activities she's involved in or could potentially be involved in. We're doing too much I think. I'm contemplating our summer plans - the only thing we have scheduled is soccer camp for all three kids. Two different weeks, but the coaches are great and they have lots of fun, so it's worth the running around. They could also do a summer camp at the Montshire Museum but I'm wondering if even a week of that in August becomes too much. I was thinking of signing them up for swimming lessons, but am rethinking that now. Summer's for relaxing - I hate the idea that they'll be running from place to place and not get a chance to just play.

The hard part about summer is trying to find time for me to write. It's a challenge to feel like I can have an uninterrupted moment. The two projects I'm working on are going fairly well - I've hit a writing roadblock this week - no drive right now, but I think that's because of all the craziness of the past few weeks. I'm still plugging away.

I'm setting a goal for myself. Modest I think, but necessary to keep me moving - four pages written a day (1000 words). That's new pages, mind you, not editing. We'll see if it works.

Still waiting to hear back on the submission of my full MS to the publisher. Cross your fingers!