New Goals, New Itch

It's been so long, dear friends, so long...

Awake and Arise!

I've got a few new goals I've been working on, that I'd like to share.

I've printed out a ton of preschool worksheets and Anjali and I have been working on them. In general I believe in learning through immersion, but since she'll be starting school in a couple of years, I figured it would be good to get her used to the common teaching methods being used in public school. The past few days she had me worried, she was pretending not to be able to count to ten. She's known how to for months. I know it was just a game, but it still had me worried. Too often bright girls pretend not to know the answers, I don't want Anjali to be one of them. Today she broke down and counted to get a sticker, lol.

I'm reading "Alice in Wonderland" to her right now, we're about half way through. With the new baby, the beautiful Nadira, our reading has declined greatly. I want to get back on top of that.

And my final goal I've started working on is writing, writing, writing. I've started my second novel, it's not the one I thought I'd write. It's YA, it's called "Meg Dare and the Bermuda Treaty", and so far I've got about 29 pages down, about 7,000 words. My goal is 2,000 words per day minimum. I've got that unsettled feeling, like I don't fit inside my own skin. I'm writing at nap times and late at night, eating junk food and chocolate. I'm dreaming about the novel, when I'm reading I'm reading about writing. I want to finish my first draft by April 1. My goal is for it to be about 80 to 90 thousand words.

Which leads to my words of encouragement to my slumbering friends. If you have a goal, a goal that is big, that you want to have as a career or a lifestyle, if there's something you want so bad you physically ache, seek it. Study it. Pray it. Be it. Do it. Breathe it. Let it become part of your very bones, so that when you're not doing it you feel so wrong that you absolutely have to do it. Become obsessed.

AWAKE! ARISE! Seek your dreams, make your goals, whether it's working out, being a better mom, eating healthy, or becoming a florist, a writer, a dreamer, a doer, an activist! AWAKE! ARISE! Plan, plot, and DO!