Half a day

Half a day.  This is what I get every day, but it is not really half a day. It is 3 hours max.  My son goes to half a day kindergarten.  He goes to school at 11:30 am and returns with his sister at 2:40 pm on the bus.  This my friends...is my half a day.  I have three hours to do what I want, three hours to run errands, three hours to clean, three hours to pick my nose if I want (ha) and three hours to ... write.  It is a lot, it drives me crazy, it is my half a day. How on earth can I choose what and/or when to do everything?

I currently have a list of about 15 items to do today during my three hours. I checked off one thing and now I am here...writing.  I WANT to write so badly, but finding the time is hard, to say the least.  I want to write all day long, I dream of writing in a quiet AND CLEAN house typing away with endless ideas flowing and flowing. Ha Ha Don't we all?  The thought of it makes me take a long deep breath, in through your nose - out through your nose; as if I was doing yoga for the first time in months. It relaxes me, it excites me. I JUST ...WANT... TO...WRITE!

I also want to be an excellent Mom, a wonderful wife, a great chef and a decent housekeeper. Ha  But in reality ALL of these things being pushed into my three hour half a day time window are wearing on me.  Oh, I also need to lose about 15 lbs.  It is A LOT. 

My newest realization is that I need to be networking myself. After attending my first writing conference I was told to get out there, get online, start your social media quest and start writing. Not on your book, about your book. The book you have not completed yet, that does not have a title, but about THAT book! Please chime in here to help!

So I started. It is about the only thing I can do while my son is here in the morning. I research web pages, websites and blogs to follow, people to read about, books to read, the latest trends and yadda, yadda, yadda.  I have read the online pages, researched it, read it again and now I have started...social media? 

I am overwhelmed again. Where do I start, where does it end? When on earth do I ACTUALLY work on MY BOOK(s)? 

I guess it is good I have been writing- I have set up this new blog, but I also have a family blog that I have kept since 2008:

It has been months since my family blog has been updated. Why you ask? Because I have been setting up this new blog.  I have also just moved here from Zimbabwe.  :)

I have set up many boards on pinterest, including a Writing Children's Books board that I continually update. 

Writing Children's Book Pinterest Page

And just now, I opened a tumblr page. Why again you ask? I don't know, because all the pinterest people were pinning from it and someone said if you were of the "creative" type, you should use this site as well.  I don't get it!! Again, I am overwhelmed.

But if you want to check out my tumblr page...go right ahead.

My Tumblr Page

What am I doing...who knows? However, like I said on my new fascinating (not so much) tumblr page... I am writing...and I am jumping in feet first. But with a background in competitive swimming, I have a feeling I should be diving in with my hands and head first.  Knowing this, it may be a bumpy and very wet ride ahead.