My writer’s block has cleared! I don’t know what changed but the story is flowing again and what I’m writing doesn’t feel like junk. I’m super relieved because without my writing I feel like someone who’s just floating through life, following the typical patterns. I can’t wait to be able to sit out on our gazebo and write and think. My goal is to have this book done before the end of the year. I don’t know if it’d be possible if it wasn’t already pre-written. The plot just needs filling and the writing improved throughout. I wish I could have the query letter and synopsis magically done so that as soon as I finished the book I could start looking for agents to send it out to because that’s always the longest process. I’d also really like to get the book and everything done because our little girl is due in January and once she’s born, I’m going to be very preoccupied in the following weeks and don’t know how many chances I’ll get to work on anything.
Other than that life has been pretty so so with really not much of anything happening worth mentioning. I have made the difficult decision of rehoming my two dogs. I feel extremely guilty about it but I just don’t give them the time and affection like I used to. Having a baby needing me 24/7 and always being in my space either to be held or just because I’m the primary caregiver, I don’t like the dogs brushing up against me and I get more frustrated when they don’t listen because all my patience is reserved for our son. The decision has been made even more difficult because my husband opposes it. I get why he doesn’t want to because I don’t want to rehome them either, but at the end of the day, once our daughter is born, I have to put my own mental sanity and energy first. And with two very young children, I’m going to be drained of energy and it going into winter, I do not want to bundle up every day and spend enough time out there for them to be sufficiently exercised. I’m not a winter person. So far I haven’t gotten any interest though and I wonder if I’ve priced them too high. I figured this would help keep away people who might not be the best owners and then I’d lower the price when I was as sure as I could be that they’d be in a good home (we could still use the little extra cash). But I might have to lower it anyway so that I can hopefully get them into a home before it gets colder and I run out of time. I thought with a picture as cute as this they’d find a home quick-ish. Bandit is on the left and Raven on the right. I still plan on including them in the kids book I’m going to write because I’ll always love them.
Mikaela Nicole 
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