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Today was one of those days that was a bunch of different things. It started out amazing. The kids were well behaved this morning, and today was one of the days that my son goes to a sitter for a couple of hours. It gives me a much needed break and he gets some time to play with other kids. So, all was good. He went to the sitter, I ran errands with Victoria. The sitter can't take her, because they can only watch two kids under the age of two. That went alright.

I was trying to find a copy of Midnight's Children on the island, and it is not to be found. The library has copies, but all three are checked out. I'm sixth in line for the hold, but with only three copies it means that I'll not have the book until well after the August book club session is over. On a whim, I tried the used book stores to see if I would have any better luck in finding a copy. No joy there.

At noon, I come back to the sitter to pick my son up. We get home, and the hubby is already out of bed. No nagging, yelling, and bickering to get him up today. I could have danced around the house. Overall the day was going great. The kids go down for naps, and my husband goes off to work. The kids wake up at around 3:15 and we went to the park to play for an hour or so.

We get home, have dinner, and my son turns into the spawn of satan. I don't know what happened. He had been so good all day long, and then from maybe six-thirty until bed at eight I had to deal with one temper tantrum after another. He was backtalking, argueing (sp?), and just not listening to a thing I said. No joke, I told him four times to get his jammies on and he just sat there and ignored what I said. I asked him to repeat my instruction and his answer was "I don't know". On further prompting he was able to tell me what I said, so I know it isn't a hearing issue. It is just an attitude issue that I've been dealing with lately. I don't know how to resolve it. Finally it was bed time, and now here I am trying to burn off some steam so I don't stay angry.

I've posted all of the chapters for Kings, Queens, and Pawns in my blog. If you look at the category for it now, they are all there. I'm also planning to try and add some to chapter six and post that this evening as well. I've finished my school work for the week, so I'm also hoping to get another chapter or two written this week. I'm at a bit of a standstill as I try to figure out what is going to happen next. In some ways it reads like the beginning of a romance novel, and that isn't something I'm wanting to write. So, I'm trying to plan out the rest of this story, plus the other two I was planning on for the series. I think that a three part adventure story will work nicely. It isn't such a long series of books that people will get bored, but I've also not crammed one book with entirely too much information. Once I have a better plan I'll write more quickly again. I just don't want to write my characters into a corner. I've accidently killed the main character that way and then I didn't know how to fix it short of something completly unrealistic happening. The whole story ended up going in the trash because I didn't know what to do. I don't want to do that this time.

Thanks for listening, or well reading, my rambling. Until next time...

Take care my friends,
Meg