Family

"We are family/ I've got all my sisters with me/ We are family/ Get up everybody and sing!" - "We are Family" by Sister Sledge

Every year my mom and her sisters get together for a long weekend, with a different sister hosting the reunion each year. This year is my mom's turn, so I get to see a couple of my aunts that I haven't seen in four years! I've been looking forward to this for a while now, so I'm glad it's finally here.

With the added family members and change in routine, I figure that I won't get any writing done at all this week. I have been holding steady around the 250 page mark in Willow book #4 for a few weeks now and it's starting to get on my nerves. I don't have writer's block or anything, I just either don't have the time, can't concentrate when I do have a few moments to spare, or I keep finding things to change in what I have already written. I think I have rewritten the last ten pages I have been working on at least half a dozen times. Sometimes it's just tweaking a sentence here or there, sometimes way more. Next week, I plan to get back on track and get some serious writing done!

I was originally hoping to finish this novel by the first week of June when the girls I nanny for get out of school, but that's not happening. My new goal is to finish my writing and editing of book #4 by the 4th of July, which will mark the end of a two week vacation I have from work while the girls are out of town. That goal will be accomplished!