School's Out!

Note: I worte this prior to going on vacation and forgot to press publish.

Now this is a fantastic day, the first day of summer vacation. I have two months to sleep in, let my kids walk around dirty, sunburned (just a touch-- we're not talking lobster red with blisters)and happy and just relax.



All this relaxation comes with good news. My car is all clean and sparkly. Half of my house is super clean (the kids rooms are all that is left) so I'll soon be able to have company over and not look around for toys. And I've landed a new writing series for our paper.


As a freelance writer, jobs don't just hop in your lap often. Perhaps I'd have more work if I actually looked for it, but I'm happy being a mom so unless the phone rings with someone who has heard about me via my column or another publication then I don't work.



This time I was gutsy and actually proposed my stories to my paper's editor, but I didn't think I'd have a snowball's chance in Hades at getting it. I proposed a travel series about the various places my daugthers and I go this summer. We're going to Burney Falls, Fort Bragg, Sequoia National Park/ King's Canyon, Montana, Yellowstone National Park, San Antonio, Texas, San Diego, Anaheim and who knows where else. I'm driving the girls and for many of the trips we are camping alone. Anyway my editor said he thought it was a great idea, so now I get to be paid for vacationing-- and I get a laptop!


When I have the chance, I will pop in and say "Hi." I hope you are all have a super fantastic summer.