tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27337301.post-71312282859803101532008-05-08T09:19:00.004-04:002008-12-10T09:27:27.603-05:00Well, my dear bloggy friends, May 1st has come and gone. May 1st was my big fat manuscript deadline for <a href="http://blog.betzwhite.com/2008/03/in-mood.html">book #2</a>. I wish I could say how relieved I am and how much lighter I feel with the weight off my shoulders, but it's more of a gradual awakening. Of course, there are many straggling loose ends that didn't quite make the deadline, so I wouldn't dare use the word "done" quite yet.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B4cqIWkgkGw/SCMIvrVvXUI/AAAAAAAAAyA/TxJ9wWrt9Co/s1600-h/irises.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_B4cqIWkgkGw/SCMIvrVvXUI/AAAAAAAAAyA/TxJ9wWrt9Co/s400/irises.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198008010096467266" border="0" /></a><br />I am starting to look for normal. Not perfection, just some kind of sane, regular rhythm around here. Like perhaps a few evenings spent on the couch knitting and talking to my husband instead of working until midnight. A shower every other day would be nice (for everyone). If you're a regular visitor around here, you know that we <a href="http://blog.betzwhite.com/2007/06/ouch.html">moved</a> across the country (WI to MD) last summer right before school started. I took 2 weeks to unpack than dove into this book head first as soon as the school bus pulled away from the curb on the first day of school. I have been sitting at my computer, drawing table, or sewing machine ever since. Practically.<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_B4cqIWkgkGw/SCMIvbVvXTI/AAAAAAAAAx4/2DkcB_Ak-fw/s1600-h/lamppostflwr.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_B4cqIWkgkGw/SCMIvbVvXTI/AAAAAAAAAx4/2DkcB_Ak-fw/s400/lamppostflwr.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5198008005801499954" border="0" /></a><br />Now there are five weeks left of the school year. Five weeks before I switch to summertime mom-mode. Five weeks to catch up on all of the things I should've taken care of for the last nine months...finding a dentist, start exercising again, answering long over due emails, maybe get my Maryland driver's license...but I'm going to take it slow, one thing at a time.<br /><br />Funny story...the afternoon before my big deadline, a neighbor kid rang the doorbell. I heard my oldest son answer and tell his friend, "You can't come in, my mom has a deadline." The neighbor kid said incredulously, "What? Your mom has a DEAD LION????!!!"<br /><br />Ha! Love that. I sure did...I had a big fat dead lion and thank goodness it's gone now.<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">(hey, and thanks everyone for the anniversary wishes! That <a href="http://blog.betzwhite.com/2008/05/happy-anniversary-honey.html">photo</a> was taken by my sister-in-law one weekend in Chicago, 1990. The roll of film was forgotten, went undeveloped for years, then was rediscovered and developed. What a nice surprise! It is my favorite photo of me and the hub.)</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/27337301-7131228285980310153?l=blog.betzwhite.com'/></div>Betz Whitehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07462296992185760050noreply@blogger.com16