Running ragged…

It’s the end of a hectic week, one where I agreed to complete the blogging A to Z April Challenge.

What was I thinking…?

Last week was the first week of the Easter holidays which coincided with the end of the tax year so all hell broke loose here. As the maddest giddy aunt known to my many nieces I’d been commandeered into becoming a temporary taxi driver, personal shopper and waitress! And carer.

Monday I raced up to Kingston, picked up middle two nieces and dropped them at my mothers. Then rushed to collect eldest niece from work, followed by a dash to pick up second eldest from school, poor lamb despite being on holiday she’s attending revision lessons, as if securing a prediction of 14 ‘O’ levels (mostly grade +*) isn’t sufficient - she needs extra lessons!?

This set of bonkers escapades was repeated over the next four days as nieces stayed between my house and my mothers. Including shopping trips to Brighton Laines and Horsham. It was fun. It was mad.

I take my hat off to all the mums here who run households and blog and write and juggle kids because this week my writing took a bit of a nose dive. I managed to keep the challenge on track and dip into Twitter occasionally but the novel is on hold until May… probably!

I’ve realised that this coming week may be a another challenge as I shall be away the following week so I need to get a double set of posts drafted, written and posted before I go away - if I want to remain part of the challenge…so no pressure.

I started out as number 1916, out of a field of around 1,940 and then I moved to 1914. To start with I thought I’d got confused but my number changed to #1881 and now I’m at #1805 so it appears that bloggers disappear off the A to Z challenge list at quite a high rate – *gulps*

So if I don’t respond to your lovely comments on my blog, I’m not ignoring you, really I’m not, just running ragged for the second week of the Easter holiday mayhem.

Will be awfully glad when normal services can be resumed week commencing 23rd April – St George’s day – ‘World Book Night’ oh and I have to organise a book launch too!!!!!!!!