Quiet Creative Time

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I was about to address my first post regarding the challenge of schooling 2 or more kids at a time.  As I sit here trying to concentrate, I face another challenge of the creative SAHM.

Since the time I began this post, I have received a steady stream of interruptions from my darling 7 and 11 year olds. I would love to have just a few minutes of quiet to write a thoughtful post.  However in my desire to encourage communication and their own creativity, I feel it's important to stop what I'm doing, give them my full attention and acknowledge their stories and questions sincerely.

There are several creative things I would like to work on, including this blog, but the problem is finding the time and then when I have the time... where can I get some quiet?

I believe a major theme we will see as this blog continues is that there are 24 hours in a day and we choose to make time for things that are important to us individually.  Time for communicating with my children is extremely important for me, but having a little bit of quiet productive time for myself is also important.  As I was composing this post, my final interruption was "MOM!!!! J keeps annoying me! Make him stop!!!!"

I took a deep breath and said, "It is 5:15.  It is now time for 15 minutes of quiet creative time! Everyone in your own room and from now until 5:30 pm, work on something creative, quietly!!"

I am a little bit in shock.  It is now dead silent in my house and I am about to finish this post.  "15 minutes of quiet creative time" is my creation of the day!