So in my last post I mentioned how much this promoting and marketing is taking it out of me and that I spent all day in my dressing gown and didn’t even brush my hair. The truth is, I spent all of today the same way and do you know what I did? Not a damn thing LOL. For day’s now I have been saying ‘Tomorrow I’m going to move the living room around and bleach the floor, hoover the sofa, antibacterialize the kids toys after throwing most of them because they don’t play with them!’ And still I have yet to see tomorrow.
It would seem it is not the book stuff that’s taking it out of me, I am just pure lazy. I need to start looking after my appearance now, nobody will want me to do a book signing if I turn up in stretchy pants and face paints! But let me tell you a secret. Come closer. Closer.
I LIKE stretchy pants and face paints! SSSHHHHH Don’t tell anyone or it will ruin all of the credibility I don’t have!
I have three children and the oldest isn’t even 6 yet, don’t get me wrong I would LOVE to turn up for school every morning to drop them off and look not only successful but awake! Instead of rice crispies in my hair and tea stains on my top, but it just isn’t happening. I am a mother therefore I dress like one. My shoe collection is fit to burst of lovely peep toe heels and boots, but I don’t even go out, so why do I obsess about buying them? ( actually I don’t have a pair of green shoes, hang on need to check eBay ^_^)
The point is that I may struggle with my kids and wake up thinking ‘is it nearly bedtime yet?’ and i may walk around looking like a zombie, and yes OK that jumper underneath my coat IS part of pajama set i have had far to long but can’t bare to part with, but i am also living my dream! A dream i have had for many years now, and it is only one of many. As well as writing i love crafts and singing and dancing, and i also love painting and decorating, trimming hedges, plastering walls, putting pictures up, wallpapering! you give me a task women aren’t supposed to do and i will tackle it with even more passion!
Don’t let anyone stand in your way, go forth and claim your place in this world with whatever it is you want to do. who says the stay at home wife and mother cant be successful? i sure as hell don’t!
Susan Hatton Polp 