Time to celebrate – the kids are back in school! Now that I’m not subject to constant demands for food or entertainment (in stereo) I can finally get down to work on polishing my latest manuscript for submission to the agents and editors I met at the conference.
Not to say I don’t still have lots of other things to distract me. My husband and my son have birthdays this month, a week apart, hubby first. Thank goodness I already have his present! I bought it way back in May when I was in Dubai and I can’t wait to give it to him. (Pictures later!) The only thing other thing I need to do for his birthday is track down the ingredients for a cheesecake and then actually make it. At least I hope it’s that simple. Last year I ended up walking around for more than an hour, checking every grocery in the neighborhood before I finally found the last container of sour cream anywhere in a square mile radius.
Next week is the boy’s birthday – which means hosting a party. Anyone who has been reading my blog for any length of time already knows how much birthday parties stress me out. I’m trying not to let this one get to me too much but it’s hard. There have already been a ton of party invitations sent out – for other people’s parties! I have to get ours out tomorrow, lest all his friends get booked up. He’s requested to have the party in our back garden – which is well and good except now I have to think up some sort of entertainment for a pack of 5 & 6 year old boys. I’m considering renting a bouncy castle. I think if I get a smallish one it will be reasonably priced – worth at least as much as my sanity, right?
If all that wasn’t enough (on top of our on going sports activities), the children have started in on me about their Halloween costumes. First they wanted to be Scooby Doo, now they have switched to mummies. My daughter suggested we could wrap her up in toilet paper. I jumped on that idea because Scooby Doo costumes are scarce in Egypt but toilet paper we’ve got. I can probably even do better than toilet paper. Since my husband wasn’t impressed with the toilet paper suggestion at all, I’ve taken it as a personal challenge to come up with some great mummy costumes for them.
So that’s what’s going on with me this month. Progress reports as progress occurs…
