Just checking in

[matril]

Hmm. It's been quiet here for a little while. Not much new happening. My husband got the yearly pink slip, no surprise, but blah. We had a follow-up IEP for Luke regarding home services, and they'll be hiring a full-time board certified home services person thingy in September who will set up regular visits, but until then it's the usual "try to squeeze in a five-minute work session with Luke while the other kids scream for my attention." Well, at least Luke has been very cheerful and affectionate lately. He lost another tooth and is getting that adorable holes-in-the-mouth smile. :D Ryan is being insanely clingy. If I'm sitting down, he absolutely must be in my lap. I wouldn't mind the cuddliness if he just sat quietly, but he squirms and wriggles and smacks his head against me - today, thanks to my glasses getting crushed between my head and his, I got a serious black eye. And he has a very rigid routine of sucking his thumb while grabbing my hair and yanking. Ouch, ouch, ouch. I like being loved, I'd just like to be loved less violently. Emma is also in a (much safer) affectionate stage of constantly saying "I love you, Mommy/Daddy," and it makes my heart swell to bursting. Yay!

I think the real reason for the break is that I've been in a massive writing binge. Perhaps it's a subconscious response to getting a bunch of rejections for my manuscript, so I'm working myself crazy over a new one, but I think the main reason is that it's a much easier story to write. It has been flowing just beautifully - who knows whether it's going anywhere good, but I'm going to just keep writing and see what happens. Seriously, I wrote about 30 pages in three days. It drives my husband batty to see not much more than the back of my head at the computer, but then when he sits to read what I've written, he always finishes with a "Oh, no, you can't just stop there! What happens next?" Which makes me feel less guilty for going at it some more. Which I think I shall, right now. (Oh, and I think I have a title, finally: Other. Doesn't it have a nice evocation, even if you haven't any idea what the story's about?)

Comments

[melitusj.livejournal.com]

Hmm. . .

I'd tell you to cut your hair short, but you wouldn't listen to me. So I suppose you'll just have to wait until he grows out of it or something.

I'd like to read this story- but I'll wait until it's done. Besides, I need to get you my comments on the one you've already given me. Lazy me.

[matril.livejournal.com]

Short hair wouldn't make a difference. If I braid my hair and wrap it tight around my head, Ryan roots around and finds whatever tiny little bit he can grab. The shorter it is, the more it hurts. I'd have to shave my head completely. And that will not happen unless I desperately need to buy a watch fob for a Christmas present. :P He used to stuff his hand in my mouth, and he stopped that finally, so I have hope that the hair tugging is just a phase as well.

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