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Happy Fourth of July!

Posted by Heather | Posted in Personal Reflections, Update | Posted on 03-07-2008

Tags: holidays, Update

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I just wanted to take a few quick minutes to wish everyone a happy and safe Fourth of July. (For those of you not in the US, have a happy weekend.)

We will be seeing fireworks in our town tonight, and in the neighboring town tomorrow night. We’ll see what the baby thinks about fireworks. His next oldest brother would cry hysterically when they went off and I spent the night in the van where it was just a touch quieter. We will also be going to a carnival tomorrow. The kids can barely stand the wait for any of it. Personally all the running around has me tired before we’ve even started.

I’ve been keeping busy with several web related projects, both my own and clients as well as working on getting my gift business programs up and running. I will admit that my writing has taken a back-seat again, but I do have it scheduled for next week if not sooner. (Yes, I’m not above using my sister-in-law being in town as an excuse….)

What are you all doing for the holiday (or weekend, for those that don’t celebrate)? Feel free to leave me a comment. I’d love to have some new ideas for things to do or ways to celebrate.

I hope everyone is doing well.
Have a great day!
Heather

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5 things about Me

Posted by Heather | Posted in Personal Reflections | Posted on 16-05-2008

Tags: about, mommyfest, personal

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Wow, so many posts. I have to thank MommyFest Blog party for such great topic starters. I haven’t had this many posts in a row in…. ummm…. Never.

Here is my personal top five list:

1. I am a dreamer at heart. I always can see what can be and try to achieve it. The down-side: Sometimes I can be a little naive and too trusting.

2. If I had my way, my house would be overflowing with children and animals. The down-side to this one: Not enough space and a hubby that objects.

3. I am a pack rat. If I had my way I would never throw out anything. (Good thing I have my hubby to balance me out.)

4. I’m a little clutzy. I am the only person that I know that can sprain both ankles at the same time.

5. I hate to admit this one, but hubby agrees with me: I am a blond in every sense of the word.

This was harder than it looks. I actually had to rack my brain for some interesting tid bits that I haven’t already shared…

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What I’ve learned since becoming a Mom

Posted by Heather | Posted in Articles, Family, Personal Reflections, Writing | Posted on 12-05-2008

Tags: child, children, mom, parenting, Writing

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Here are the top ten that I have found most attitude altering (in no particular order):

1. No matter the love you have felt before, your love for your child will eclipse it.

2. If you’ve just put on clean clothes something will make it necessary to change. (Baby spit up, food, mud, some unnamed substance you really don’t want to know what it really is….) The same is true when children get dressed up to leave the house.

3. Each child is different, and each child is different from moment to moment. (This is especially true of what foods they like. If I had a penny for the number of times I have heard “But I don’t like that!” even if it’s something they couldn’t get enough of the day before.)

4. It doesn’t matter how clean your house is, within 5 minutes of children returning it will look like you haven’t cleaned it in a year.

5. Anytime you sit down to do something for yourself, you are guaranteed to have a life threatening emergency of biblical proportions. (Such as a splinter in a little finger, someone spilled milk, child one accidentally spit while talking and it hit child two, etc.)

6. If you put something in one spot it will be gone in the space of five seconds.

7. It doesn’t matter how many socks go in the dryer, you will always end up with an odd number and at least 5 socks that have no match.

8. If something spills, breaks, disappears, etc and try to find out who is responsible the culprit is always “not me” no matter who you ask. (Personally I think Not Me should start paying rent. I’ll bring that up if I ever find him.)

9. If you schedule a big event that involves you and the special someone in your life (husband, boyfriend, whatever) at least one of your children will come down with a bizarre mystery illness. This illness will include but will not be limited to a fever, vomiting, and/or other unknown symptoms that make it impossible for your intended evening festivities.

10. You can’t sweat the small stuff, more of it keeps cropping up. (And you’ll just go insane if you keep letting it get to you.)

Thanks MommyFest Blog Party for this great topic! I never stopped to think how much my children have taught me!

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Writing Progress Update

Posted by Heather | Posted in Family, Personal Reflections, Writing | Posted on 13-06-2006

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Well, it seems that for every step forward I have to take two big leaps back. I ahve been trying to write my first spec fiction novel and have hit a wall. I have the world, the story line, the main character, the plot, and only two pages. I’m not sure if I have just been over-thinking this and have built it up into such a huge force it’s stiffling my creativity or what.

I have decided that I will step back and let it percolate in the back of my mind for a while and see what happens. I’ve started a new story (see how I am starting out small – finally, lol) about a woman with an affinity with the forces of nature that has a disfunctional family. So far that’s all I know about her. I have no idea where the story is going, but maybe that’s for the best. If I can’t analyze it to death maybe I can actually produce something.

i think I was going in to this the wrong way. I started with the goal of publishing a novel. I made this my last chance effort of fulfilling any of my childhood dreams. That’s enough pressure to crack anyone’s creative spirit, isn’t it? I’ve had a complete attitude adjustment and realized that I have a beautiful family and a fantastic husband which is more than a lot of people have. I am raising four amazing little people and that is more than enough.

I am going back to writing because it’s something I love and it fills a void in me that it has taken many years for me to realized exists. It’s taken me even more to realize that that void is my creative soul slowly dying from lack of attention. I’ve tried various ways to feed it, but it seems that writing in any form is the only way to truly nourish it.

Quite a bit of self-analysis for a couple of days, isn’t it?

On that serious note, I will take my leave. I need to get myself and children ready for my day job. I hope to be posting some of me actual writing up here soon for comments and feedback. In the meantime I will enjoy what I have rather than what I don’t.

Best wishes to all!
Heather

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