Feast or Famine

The title of this blog is just so true ... sometimes Mommy writes, and sometimes she doesn't.  The last few weeks have been a good example of both.  I got a lot of writing (well, more like editing, but revising and rewriting does count, in my book) done while we were on vacation in Surprise, AZ.  When I came home, a day-and-a-half before the rest of the family so I could teach my Monday morning class, I was feeling energized and looking forward to a full afternoon and evening with the house to myself before I had to pick everyone up at the airport.

Then disaster struck, and back to Arizona I went, travelling while our youngest son was in surgery to fix a badly broken arm.  We dealt with the hospital, prescriptions, travel plans to return home, and took care of my poor little man, who was a real trooper through the whole ordeal.  We got home (on a direct Phoenix-Saskatoon flight!), my mom came to stay for a week, and we thought the worst was over.  Then when we went for his one-week x-ray and checkup, the unthinkable had happened:  the pins and the bone fragment had moved, and they were going to have to do surgery a second time.

We're now a week out from that second surgery, they're happy with where things are (even though the alignment isn't quite perfect, but that would've required a much more risky and complicated open reduction, rather than the closed reduction that was performed twice), and the cast should be off and the pins out next week.

So, did I do any writing?  Ha ... not a jot.  I haven't even made it to the gym, used the treadmill at home, or even done any yoga.  But things are beginning to return to normal, and I think my brain is starting to shift out of mommy-emergency mode into normal-mommy mode, so I'm hoping the next several weeks will be more productive ;-)  I've got a backlog of editing that I'm just beginning to get a handle on, and the fact that we still have feet upon feet of snow is keeping me from procrastinating in the garden.  The launch date for my next project is fast approaching, so I do have a bit of writing to do there ... and, surprisingly, writing non-fiction on a tight deadline isn't a problem at all.