Most of you know that I've got four children. My eldest is seventeen. Oh heavens...how did that happen? Wasn't I just seventeen the other day? I'm sure I was.... Well, she's amazing. I know the majority of mothers have very high compliments to pay their children--and rightly so. However, my baby girl is astounding by anyone's standards. She is going to high school and college at the same time. In high school she's taking mostly AP (Advanced Placement) classes, which also count for college credits. She gets up at five a.m. every morning, goes to Seminary, then goes to school, she works four hours daily as an office manager at Winderemere Real Estate. She speaks Spanish, plays piano, guitar and flute. She goes to the gym daily and it shows. This was her yesterday. This is a picture I just took of her, after getting her braces put on. Now, having said that she is gifted and talented, I should ammend this post to tell you the following. She just got home
Stop working for awhile!
ReplyDeleteThat's great advice Steve....except when I have deadlines to meet.
ReplyDeleteI'm working on it though. I am. I mean the whole not-being-glued-to-my-work when the kids are home thing.
I'm making it work. I have to!
Actually, Pam - Steve's right. Sometimes you have to say no otherwise you'll start to lose perspective. Speaking from experience and because I also write, it's very much from the same angle. I don't work for anyone who wants 1000 words yesterday for nothing - I'm in charge. Yes, I may have lost out on work but I've also got a roster of clients who are satisfied with the way I work because they know they get a decent bit of work in exchange.
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