Okay, I'm a bit upset.  I honestly can't tell if it's hormonally driven or just stress.  I put my baby in daycare half days three days a week this month with the intention of getting something done around the house.  I tied my shoes this morning, and suddenly two hours had gone by, with nothing done!  Then my husband says, "Let's get some coffee!"  Crap!!!  So nothing has been done, again, and I have a rather large to-do list that I would like to finish before I go back to work in June.

We brought the baby home from daycare, and he fell asleep.  Okay, nap time.  Great time to get something done.  So here I am, on the computer.  My husband started talking this morning about freelance stuff.  Well, he's been talking about freelancing in his career for some time.  But it was never something I was interested in.  Chalk it up to pregnancy.  I wasn't interested in writing.  Fast forward several months and one c-section, and now, I REALLY want to write.  Very little time, same complaint many writers have to also have a day job and families.  My friend Ken McConnell has written to me about how he manages his time and still finds writing time, after juggling family and job.

So like an idiot, I start looking at www.freelanceswitch.com, and there are several writing jobs I am interested in.  I still want to write creatively and want to focus on fiction, but my writing group meets only twice a month.  Maybe I'm in massive withdrawal, but that isn't enough!  I doubt I could make enough money on the freelance stuff to even have to report it on taxes, but it would be writing, and I would be getting my name out there.

Then I see the pile of clean but wrinkled laundry that needs to be folded, and the myriad of other things around the house that still need to be done.  Sometimes being the mom sucks!  I wish I were an organizational monster like Ken.  Or my friend Erica, who is a SAHM, runs a business, and deals with children who have health issues.  She is an organizational machine, too.  I can see now why some moms are in treatment programs for meth addiction!  How else would we get it all done?

Looking at that last paragraph, I do NOT imply that any of my friends are meth users!  Just clarifying.

Okay.  Deep breath.  So I think I've put the freelance question out there before, but doing it again.  Has anyone been happy doing the freelance thing?  I hear you can make a living at it, if you do it aggressively enough, and charge enough for your work.  Right now I'm just looking at some article review type jobs and such.  Perhaps some content writing, I don't know.

The other side of the coin is, is it something I can keep up once I start my other job again?  Am I just blathering on because subconsciously I'm bored with maternity leave, and looking for something to do?

I  need chocolate.  My brain hurts.