Usually this time of year is the start of my “blue” period. Just a general feeling of woe is me, thanks to my kids’ birthdays coming back to back and the sense that I can’t stop time no matter how much I’d like to.
But for some reason this year I’m…content. The sun is shining. Everyone’s healthy (knock wood). Temps are nice and toasty (just the way I like them). I have book contracts. The grass is green. The birds are singing (cher-eep, cher-oo). The Red Sox are back in first place. All is well with the world.
Yes, we’re busy. Especially now that school’s out for the summer. The kids have three full months off, and it will be nice to have them home. I’m a nester by nature, so having them here makes me happy.
So I’m going to enjoy life and hope the rest of the summer brings even more happiness (I wouldn’t complain about another contract, either. Not that I’m pushing my luck or anything).
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Here’s to feeling content, Heather! I know what you mean…sometimes, it feels as if that feeling is a fleeting thing. Have a great weekend!
by Shelley
on June 6th, 2008 at 7:36 am
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We don’t get out until the 18th. It can’t come fast enough! Although, I do get to go to The Museum of Science with the 2nd graders as a chaperone. That’s so cool!
Looking forward to sitting out on the patio with nowhere to be but right there, ya know?
by debbie
on June 6th, 2008 at 10:00 am
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It’s nice that you’ve accepted middle age so well.
OLD!!!
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I think I need to retire and go “Nest” someplace. This “hunter” role is too stressful.
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Heather,
I finally got past the “I want to stop time and keep the kids little” when they hit ages where they were really good companions, as well as kids. When beth and I began to like the same music and movies, when my oldest son and I could really talk about what we were reading-that sort of thing.
I love this time of year though right now our Cardinals are NOT in first place, and the sun has made few appearances here-we are now officially having the wettest year ever in St. Louis. But it is summer, and the flowers and birds are here and it is finally hot.
This is off topic, but didn’t you have a new series under a different name coming out? what’s happening with that?
Caryn
by caryn
on June 6th, 2008 at 11:54 am
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Shelley, I agree these moments can be fleeting–which is why I’m trying to enjoy right now as much as possible. Weekend should be fun–for those of you in the Chicago area, I’ll be signing books at Printer’s Row, in the Big Sleep booth from 1-4 tomorrow!
Debbie, I’m having trouble with the whole nothing to do concept. I always feel like I have something to do, even if I don’t want to be doing it!
You’re old too, Theo. Just saying.
by Heather
on June 6th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
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Will, I think you’d find nesting to be just as exhausting.
Caryn, mine aren’t quite to that point yet, but I do look forward to it.
As far as the new series–I still don’t have a pub date or my official pen name (the one I had won’t work after all). Keep an eye here or sign up for my newsletter on my website and I’m sure I’ll have news soon. Or at least I tell myself that so I don’t stress. 
by Heather
on June 6th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
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I feel like I miss out on so much summer since most of my day is spent inside at work, inside the car or inside the house exhausted. But I’m determined to be better this year since I slept all last summer. I’d like to say I’m a nester, but I’m afraid not working outside the home I’d be a basket case. Oh, I’d talk about writing for hours, making wonderful dinners and working out, but I’m afraid I’d be eating potato chips, watching movies and playing computer games.
by Lynn
on June 6th, 2008 at 8:40 pm
