Things have been crazy busy around here, which is why I’ve been more intermittent about blogging. Our oldest daughter recently came down with pneumonia, after nearly a month of fighting through this low-level cold that everyone seems to have gotten (our son fought it off, but not our daughter, apparently). So that’s been the latest crazy thing. Thank God for anti-biotics.
Besides all that, there’s Christmas, of course, which is actually going to be kind of low key this year (just us, the in-laws, and my brother-in-law), but of course there’s still a lot that goes into that, especially with small kids.
So things have been super busy on the home front—so much that I’ve had to radically rethink a few things on the writing front. I’ll write a longer post about this later, perhaps in the new year, but the short version is that I’ve decided to stop tracking daily word count and start tracking daily average words-per-hour instead. I’m currently in a season of life where I can’t put as many words on the page, and I don’t want that to be an obstacle between me and my family. I can, however, practice just enough writing each day to keep my skills sharp, so that when I do get the opportunity to be more productive, I can fully take advantage of that.
So that’s what I’ve been up to. It’s been a month! More at the start of the year.
I had a wake-up moment earlier this month… went in for a one-day heart cath procedure, spent 10 days getting and recovering from double bypass surgery. I’m still working on recovery, but there’s no pain, so that’s nice. I just get tired easily, but doctor said that’s to be expected. He said give it a month, I should be back to normal.
Which is all to say, you can make plans, and God laughs 🙂