You Know You're a Writing Mom If...

Instead of sloughing off backpacks and running for the Wii remotes after school, your kids stand at the top of the stairs for 10 minutes gawking in awe of the clean family room.

"We have a coffee table?!"

Yeah. Ever since taking on this writing challenge, housework has become a challenge of its own.
I take comfort in knowing I’m not alone, though. Turns out that tug-of-war between duties—can the kids handle re-wearing crushed pants out of the hamper or should plotting that next scene wait?—is common to all of us.

Think this post is gearing up to offer you a solution? 'Fraid not.

My first year going at this, I chose to only write. Everything and everyone around me “suffered” for my cause. I’ve realized this year around that I can’t take it that easy. If my family is going to survive my ambitions I have to work twice has hard and that’s just IT.

“If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.” (Tom Hanks playing Jimmy Dugan From A League Of Their Own)


Yep. That’s all I have to say about that.

But maybe you have some solutions...How do you balance (or sacrifice) it all?