Today’s Thursday Creation Review has been trampled on by an invasion – an invasion and occupation that might impact on the next few posts. I’m praying – and might make a sacrifice as well – to create an inspired space for some writing, or at least scribbling.
Beyond kids that must scream, yell and stomp, setting the dogs barking, I have the MS reactions to deal with. Loud noises and excessive input triggers spasms and meltdowns.
I am writing this on Thursday evening – well, I started yesterday morning with the now-shelved review– and this ramble might be posted before midnight Honolulu time.
It didn’t help to have a collection agency insist that we owed $40,000 for a bill that was fifteen years old and not even ours. Somehow, we will placate them before they foreclose on our house.
I’m coping badly with step-great-grandkids, especially when they ask me to read, interrupt me, say they were falling asleep at the end, then stomp off leaving me to put their mess away. Never again – MS makes reading aloud a struggle that kids can’t understand.
As for writing, that’s mentally scrambled and splintered. But I intend to write something for the WEP Challenge on Monday – if the kids give me space…and my protagonist co-operates.
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I thought I already made a comment here. I hope you survive the kid invasion. Good luck and much success with WEP. I am thinking about trying to do it. Have not decided yet.
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Hi again, Juneta. You commented on my IWSG post where I first mentioned the kid invasion. If you have a ‘change of heart’ write inspired.
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Dude, that sucks, Roland. Your step-great-grandkids sound like my 4yo. Drives me nuts when I’m trying to read to him and his sister, and he’s constantly squirming, interrupting with questions, then throwing a tantrum when I tell him to stop both. And yes, I’m constantly telling him to stop stomping.
I hope things improve and quickly. And I hope that bill gets figured out and the collection agency accepts that they’ve got the wrong people.
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So sorry to hear that, Loni as yours are home to stay for quite a few more years.
We had to agree to pay $200 a month – agency used a high-power lawyer in court;
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Grandkids are in my future, maybe, and I’m fully expecting them to be as challenging as you describe!
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I hope they aren’t so challenging for you, Jacqui. We have fifteen grandkids and five greats – not all are hell’uns. Strange thing is that I never had kids of my own – I just ended up with this instant family when I’d retired and re-married.
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Life seems to like throwing punches all at once. Everything may sort itself out in time, but I know that’s scant comfort.
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Thanks, Jeri – I will take any comfort I can get – especially for another fighter. 🙂
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