It’s been a couple of days. I know. I have been busy dealing with children. I spent most of Wednesday in court trying to deal with lawyers and family members and such. By the time I got home it was hours past lunchtime and I had a migraine threatening. So I ate and took medication and fell asleep on the couch all afternoon. The migraine never became full blown, but the pain was enough to keep me from being able to be creative. It’s near impossible to make the brain work when it’s in throws of OW.

Thursday morning was spent organizing all the legal paperwork and contacting people attached to the case in one way or another. Of the four people on the list to contact, I have been able to mark off two. I am saving the rest for Monday.

In the midst of all this I got an email from my kid’s math teacher. She’s pulling her bad habit of not handing in homework. She hadn’t handed in any since the end of last quarter. A flurry of texts back and forth between us ensued and she assured me she was on top of it and I was being a nag. I reminded her again this morning that she needed to hand in all the missing assignments or she’d be grounded. Long story short, she handed in most of the papers, not all of them and of the ones she handed in, some of them were incomplete. The kid wants to go to college. Average grades aren’t going to cut it. If that was all she was capable of, fine and dandy, but she is capable of so much more. So I expect it of her. I mean all she needs to do is hand in the darn homework. So – grounded. For how long is the question. I think until she starts handing her homework in when it’s due. And this is only one class.

I did get about 1,000 words done on my NaNoWriMo novel last night. And then I got stuck. The story is so dismally depressing. It needs a lighter note so readers won’t put it down because they can’t bear to read any more. During my morning exercises inspiration struck. I’ll have to noodle my outline a bit since a character slated for death has now been brought back to life, but I think I am again on the road of a workable story.

Tomorrow is the MO-SCBWI Fall Confluence. I am really looking forward to it this year. It plans to be stress-free, for me at least. I will need to bake a loaf of bread tonight so I can substitute out the bread they provide with lunch. I settled for a salad last year and I was famished before the conference was over.

That’s about it. I have a novel and  coloring page calling my name from the other room. And I am 99% sure my kid will argue against her grounding. Which means I will have to deal with that when she gets home instead of continuing to work on my projects. Oh well, she was warned.