It is great to hear about so many creative things going on with all of you. I think that there are so many talented people here in this community and it is really inspiring to a newbie like me to hear about all of your projects. Well... except the housework part! I am allergic to that.
I have not really published anything anywhere for year now! We moved last April - 2012. We have 4 kids, 2 dogs, 1 fish and 2 bearded dragons so moving was a major event. I got the kids settled into their new schools and daycare for the remainder of the school year and then started construction on an in-ground pool in June with me acting as the general contractor and hiring and managing all of the subcontractors. What a pain in the @#$ but it was much cheaper doing it that way than hiring a turn-key contractor. I goofed off the whole summer playing in the pool with the kids while publishing only a few articles here and there. I started back to school at the end of August taking a few Anatomy /Physiology and Psychology classes while getting the kids back to school in September. Those classes kept me very busy and required many hours of study. I finished the Fall semester with all A's and I enrolled for Spring semester starting in January ready to honker down and learn more about the human body. My goal was to get a degree in Nursing but that got cut short when my oldest son (13) got diagnosed with Bipolar in January of this year and I had to drop all of my classes to focus on him and his school work. His grades have gone from A, B, and Cs to mostly F in all of his classes. He had gone into a major depression, shut down and did not care about anything. Now there are weekly counseling appointments for him and bi-weekly appointments with his doctors to find the right medications for him. I am basically in 7th grade right now as I have to keep up with his daily assignments, talk to his teachers daily (7 of them), and work with him every night on getting it all completed and turned in so he can pull up those Fs and hopefully pass his grade. I am also fighting his school system to get him the help he needs and has needed for a long time. That requires a lot of research, emails to the school, and meetings with them monthly. All the while having many things to do for the other 3 children and the husband. That brings me up to now - March 2013. 
I have sooooo many ideas for zazzle stores, articles, blogs, etc. and write it all down in a notebook when things pop into my crazy mind. I have pages and pages of topic ideas just from all of the things I have experienced over the past year. Not to mention all of the great new beauty products I have tried and could review since that is something I enjoy doing. I get so frustrated because it is all still written down in a notebook and not published somewhere. 
The good part is that it seems my son is getting back on track with school and life. I am no longer in school and don't think I will go back anytime soon. I really hope that I can start taking some of these ideas that I have written down and turning them into SOMETHING very soon.
There I go again rambling on and on in the forum. Sorry. Jo will probably rephrase it to "what's going on with everyone EXCEPT Angel" the next time she posts!
