Things get in the way. We all know this. No matter what your intensions for getting things accomplished, life happens and all the things you planned to do don't get done.
As someone who works at home, I can tell you it doesn't take much to get the day off track. And wow did this week get off track. Between phone calls and music brainstorming sessions with students, support calls with writer friends, several book events, putting together stuff for the Valentine's Day party at my son's kindergarten and getting all of the supplies required to make the craft as well as having a son come down with a stomach bug things this week were crazy. Not to mention the work being done in my kitchen.
Yikes - the kitchen!!! That's a whole other distraction. Banging. Sawing. Laughing. Plastering.
It looked like this about a week and a half ago:
Now it looks less like the set of SAW (my husband's description) and more like this:
Monday there will be tile and later in the week the cabinets will be added and soon it will look like a kitchen again. Huzzah!
However, as wonderful as the transformation is, having people coming and going in the middle of getting the kid up and ready for school, getting him off the bus, keeping him entertained, getting ready for events and all that jazz...well, it makes it hard to focus on writing the book I'm working on. Have I gotten pages done. Yes. Is it the number of pages that I'd hoped to create this week.
HA! HA! HA! HA! No. No, it's not.
And that's okay. Because I am still moving the story forward. I am still climbing up the mountain and working to get to the other side. But life sometimes gets in the way. And when it does, it is best to just accept that tomorrow, or next week or in three weeks (which is when they assume our kitchen will be completed), life will settle down and do what you can until that time. In my case, I am plugging along two or three or four pages a day in the middle of dust and hammer noises and no heat. (Did I mention that to revamp the kitchen there was a day they had to turn off the heat?) I will accept that I will do my best and celebrate every page even if they aren't as numerous as I'd like.
At least, that is what I tell myself. Because really - what other choice do I have? Sometimes life gets in the way. That's what life is for!
BUT...since I don't have huge word counts or work related milestones to celebrate- I want to know yours. What awesome things big and small have you accomplished this week? Tell me what you have written, or worked on, or helped your kids achieve! I want to celebrate you!
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