Comments on: THE LAZY DAYS OF SUMMER http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/ Red Hot Reads Thu, 29 Jul 2010 20:19:17 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Candace Havens http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/#comment-2855 Candace Havens Wed, 01 Jul 2009 20:50:21 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1053#comment-2855 I write hard too, and I think we deserve those little breaks. I hope you get a lot of them! I write hard too, and I think we deserve those little breaks. I hope you get a lot of them!

]]> By: Joanne Rock http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/#comment-2812 Joanne Rock Tue, 30 Jun 2009 13:26:00 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1053#comment-2812 What a fantastic summer! It will be tough to go back to a deadline-driven July after this year, I'll bet. I used to have my year land like the one you describe (I loooove summers off), but two years ago it somehow got turned around and I end up with more time off in winter and less in summer. This year, when the contract calls came, I told myself I would *for sure* give myself later deadlines to get my year back on track. But it was hard to resist the lure of the checks that arrive with meeting deadlines ;-) . Must keep my kids outfitted in twenty-million pairs of sneakers each. It's expensive, you know. Enjoy the kid-time! What a fantastic summer! It will be tough to go back to a deadline-driven July after this year, I’ll bet. I used to have my year land like the one you describe (I loooove summers off), but two years ago it somehow got turned around and I end up with more time off in winter and less in summer. This year, when the contract calls came, I told myself I would *for sure* give myself later deadlines to get my year back on track. But it was hard to resist the lure of the checks that arrive with meeting deadlines ;-) . Must keep my kids outfitted in twenty-million pairs of sneakers each. It’s expensive, you know.

Enjoy the kid-time!

]]> By: Bonnie Edwards http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/#comment-2785 Bonnie Edwards Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:00:44 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1053#comment-2785 Jillian, honest, the aliens return them intact. Really. Bonnie Jillian, honest, the aliens return them intact. Really.

Bonnie

]]> By: Liz Matis http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/#comment-2784 Liz Matis Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:21:38 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1053#comment-2784 yes, yes! enjoy the times with your daughters - you will never get that time back - never - can you tell I have an empty nest? yes, yes! enjoy the times with your daughters – you will never get that time back – never – can you tell I have an empty nest?

]]> By: Jillian Burns http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/#comment-2783 Jillian Burns Fri, 26 Jun 2009 17:41:58 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1053#comment-2783 Hi Jade, I'm trying to imagine what you're talking about. Having kids I WANT to spend time with. Sometimes picturing mine going off to college is the only thing that gets me through the week. Yes, you guessed it: I have...TEENS! Aaack! They're beligerant, know-it-all, snide, insensitive, self-involved, expensive goblins that suck the life right out of me 99% of the time. So, you're saying that once they get a little older they turn human again? Could this be possible? I suppose I DO see glimpeses of humanity every once in a while... Hi Jade,
I’m trying to imagine what you’re talking about. Having kids I WANT to spend time with. Sometimes picturing mine going off to college is the only thing that gets me through the week. Yes, you guessed it: I have…TEENS! Aaack!
They’re beligerant, know-it-all, snide, insensitive, self-involved, expensive goblins that suck the life right out of me 99% of the time. So, you’re saying that once they get a little older they turn human again? Could this be possible?
I suppose I DO see glimpeses of humanity every once in a while…

]]> By: Bonnie Edwards http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/#comment-2782 Bonnie Edwards Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:03:29 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1053#comment-2782 First, Jade, it's great to know I'm not alone in thinking well ahead of time about conferences and what I'll have ready to talk about, finish, pitch and wear! I swear the only shopping I ever do is with conferences in mind. I hear you with the pedicure question: the other day dd2 was here and I said as how I never shop when they're not visiting. and they can talk me into buying really easily. "Well, Mom, it's not as if we have to talk HARD." LOL I think it's the bonding I love most of being with my girls. And it's a good excuse for a facial. Heather...how strange it would be for my kids to talk to others with Moms who write. Maybe mine would stop thinking about how "strange" I am, if they knew that other Moms are like me. Kind of fuzzy headed sometimes. have a wonderful national conference! Bonnie First, Jade, it’s great to know I’m not alone in thinking well ahead of time about conferences and what I’ll have ready to talk about, finish, pitch and wear! I swear the only shopping I ever do is with conferences in mind.

I hear you with the pedicure question: the other day dd2 was here and I said as how I never shop when they’re not visiting. and they can talk me into buying really easily. “Well, Mom, it’s not as if we have to talk HARD.” LOL I think it’s the bonding I love most of being with my girls. And it’s a good excuse for a facial.

Heather…how strange it would be for my kids to talk to others with Moms who write. Maybe mine would stop thinking about how “strange” I am, if they knew that other Moms are like me. Kind of fuzzy headed sometimes.

have a wonderful national conference!

Bonnie

]]> By: Heather MacAllister http://blazeauthors.com/blog/2009/06/26/the-lazy-days-of-summer/#comment-2780 Heather MacAllister Fri, 26 Jun 2009 12:48:26 +0000 http://blazeauthors.com/blog/?p=1053#comment-2780 Jade, I've told this story before, but in case you missed it, a couple of years ago, my son had a class at UT (Texas) with two other romance writer kids. What are the chances? Anyway, they got together and compared notes and talked about Conference, with a capital "C". "Your mom's home ALL the time. She never goes anywhere. Then, in the summer, there's the mysterious Conference. And you hear about it for weeks." Apparently, we're not the only ones who prepare in advance. :-) Then afterward, while recovering, we go back-to-school shopping and are so brain-fried that we can be talked into things. When he told me about it, he said, "It was so weird to find others who knew EXACTLY what I was talking about." And, yes, do enjoy this time with your daughters. Jade, I’ve told this story before, but in case you missed it, a couple of years ago, my son had a class at UT (Texas) with two other romance writer kids. What are the chances? Anyway, they got together and compared notes and talked about Conference, with a capital “C”. “Your mom’s home ALL the time. She never goes anywhere. Then, in the summer, there’s the mysterious Conference. And you hear about it for weeks.” Apparently, we’re not the only ones who prepare in advance. :-) Then afterward, while recovering, we go back-to-school shopping and are so brain-fried that we can be talked into things. When he told me about it, he said, “It was so weird to find others who knew EXACTLY what I was talking about.”

And, yes, do enjoy this time with your daughters.

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