How I'm Doing

New habits I've formed:
Daily walks, usually two or three a day
Nightly moon-gazing
Free writing.

New thoughts on writing:
If you make set appointments with your muses, they will show up. Cordially.
Every story is essentially the same, so don't be frustrated with originality. But every author tells it in a different way, so they all become unique.
When in doubt, write about food. There's always something to say.

New struggles I have:
I shouldn't admit this, but this stretch of motherhood is my least favorite so far in some ways. Toddlers are hard. I'm far too selfish. I want me time. I want two minutes of alone, so I hide in bathrooms and with my dinner. At night, THIS is reeling through my mind (Samuel L. Jackson reading a new bedtime story, Go the F*** to Sleep--hilarious but definitely NSFW)

I have lost around sixteen pounds and am down to the weight I was at when I walked out of the hospital with Finley. This is both liberating and horrifying. I am feeling my body re-chisel itself into a healthy, natural form. I am also reliving the last year and a half of emotional eating and feeling so pathetic about the abuse I put my body through. Was I really that down on myself? Sheesh.

New ways of thinking:
Oh, just considering a revamp on the way I have chosen to live life. But more on that later.