My husband

surprised me
...I had been thinking that he was ready to nag me about going out and getting a job....we had always decided that I would be a stay-at-home-mom while the kids were all young and thankfully he is on a decent enough wage that we can do that(there's not a lot over at the end of the month...and savings....what's that? but we don't have any major debts apart from the mortgage and a small loan and we can afford to live reasonably well but things are sometimes tight..depending on what bills come up I guess...) but we always knew that when the youngest went off to school I would be thinking about getting a parttime job ...or trying to make a career out of writing....we decided to give me a year on the writing front and that year is nearly up with no changes(gee I have to be writing to do that but in all honesty it is the first time in so long that I've had total me time during the day that I've been doing that having me time instead of writing time so I haven't accomplished very much) but DH was great he said he could hardly blame me and suggested another year....but to make sure I didn't squander that year like this one....and he was more than happy to say he'd take time off over July/August so I could go back to the US for the writers conference in Reno so WOOHOO...support from him...which means I have to do exactly that ...not squander my time and try and make a real success of writing so I can justify his confidence in me as well as mine in myself