When your Hobby becomes Work...

What do you do for fun?!

reading with my babies.

When my girls were babies (feels like  yesterday, but was 9 and 7 years ago, in reality) I kept a journal in MS Word. When they were toddlers, I had a blog. Writing professionally was not something I had the mental energy for. I did it just for fun.

Now, of course, I write professionally. I write a lot. Maybe not as often as I ought to, but between novels, blogs, articles, and short stories, if feels like I live my life with my fingers glued to the keyboard.

So, what do I do for fun? I can tell you it's not keeping an internet journal.

I play spoons!

My darling husband plays the mandolin, but I'm not a musical person. Seven years of piano lessons confirmed that music is not a gift I have. I picked up the spoons this summer as a way to hang out with my husband more. He thought it would be fun, I though it would be fun, and it turns out...it's way fun! And, it also turns out, I'm not completely useless in a jam session anymore.

Here's Dan and I playing some old country tunes, or, doing what I do for fun now that my other hobby became my job.