Just do it!

There are certain moments when having children makes your life more hectic than you could possibly imagine.  Then there are some quiet moments too when sleep is upon them and surprisingly you're left sitting at the kitchen table enjoying some chocolate and just thinking.  My thought process today brought me back just moments, to when I had been rearranging my knitting bag and watching an episode of Oprah. She was talking to J.K. Rowling about the adventure of writing the Harry Potter series.  Watching that show brought my own desire to write a book to the surface.  I don't want to be a billionaire author or even go on world wide book tours but since I was young my love for reading and the magic of words has always inspired me to want to create a book that people love.  Recently that desire has collided with my daughter Maria's love of storytelling, specifically me making up stories to tell her in bed, on the potty, in the car.  She loves to hear them over and over and she remembers every story I make up where as sometimes they drift out of my memory after I've told them.  So I thought, the world doesn't have to love my book.  If my children treasured the book I had written and it inspired them in some way I would feel fulfilled.  So I'm going to just do it!  There are a lot of websites where you can publish your own book and they're as easy as creating this blog.  Everyone starts somewhere, J.K. Rowling started on napkins in the coffee shop right?  So here I state my goal because if it's out there for everyone to read I will be compelled to meet it.  One of Maria's Christmas presents this year will be a bound copy of one of my original stories in print with original artwork completely created by me.
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