On hiatus...

May 17, 2009

Having a difficult time at home.  My youngest son, the autistic one, has been quite intense lately, and I'm having a rough time with him.  My oldest, who is my other 'difficult' one, has also been a lot of work.  They've had a lot of appointments - counseling, case conferences, dentist visits, doctor visits (my middle son fractured his arm a few weeks ago), and my husband has been running around in circles with the doctors trying to get a date set for his neck surgery.  Finally we have one, on June 4, the day after my youngest's 6th birthday.  Home life has been stressful and overwhelming, and I've been depressed and burned out.  I'm barely functioning at the moment.  I haven't been in the mood to work on my sims projects, because, let's be honest here, sometimes it's a lot of work and it's difficult and daunting to get good pictures.  I want to try to focus on my novel (that I've been working on sporadically for four years) and try to do *the final* read through and edit so I can submit it for publishing.  My goal is to have it finished by the time school is out.  It's about time I did something with it instead of thinking about it.  And, to put it simply, I'm getting sick of sims.  I'm afraid if I don't step back for awhile, I'll burn out completely.  I need a chance to miss it, if that makes sense.

So...I think it's in my best interest to take a break.  I plan on waiting until the kids go back to school in August to pick up the sims stories, unless my muse calls me sooner - but I'm certainly not going to try to force it. 

To fans of Between the Light and the Darkness, only 2 chapters left to post.  I will get those done (hopefully soon) during my break, because those pics are already done, and I'm not cruel enough to leave people hanging for three months waiting for the end.  Not quite, lol.

To fans of Every Family Has Its Secrets, very sorry.  But it will need to be put on hold for awhile.  I hate to do that, but like I said, I need a break.  It's been more work than fun, and that makes it just 'one more thing' I have to deal with.  I certainly don't want to quit, there's so much I want to share, so hopefully in mid August I'll get on with it.

To fans of The Weekend Warriors Chronicles,  I left it at a good stopping point - the end of their first adventure.  A second adventure has been in the works (the writing) for awhile now, and I have many ideas for furture adventures.  So I'm not aiming to quit this one.

Thank you all for your patience and understanding.  Thank you for your lovely comments.  Forgive me for not responding sooner - I'll try to get to it soon.