I never realized how much I enjoy silence until this week. As anyone who knows me knows I’m a social person and love to talk. I’m not exactly shy, and I can carry on a conversation with a house plant.

That being said, I would give my left arm to have an hour of silence this week.

My darling daughters are home from school vacation and I can get NADA done. I made a deal with them that if they just let me work a few hours in the morning I’d take them places and do things with them after lunch. Yes, I bribed them, but I figured it wouldn’t kill them to amuse themselves for a few hours. I mean, the weather has been beautiful, we have a big back yard and a trampoline, they should be able to play for 4 hours, right?

OH SO VERY WRONG!!!

I can’t even go to the bathroom without someone calling for me. Case in point, I had all three girls sitting in front of the TV with bowls of ice cream. One would think life would be good for a while right? WRONG! I managed to get one paragraph of this written before my oldest came in to talk to me.

And to think, I couldn’t wait until they could walk and talk. Sigh, I miss the days when they were trapped in car seats and cribs. . .

Only three more days until they go back to school!
Ari. . .

Something I remember my mother saying to me, and something I say to my children has always been, “Remember, words can hurt.”

It seems to me that some people have forgotten this lesson.
No, I didn’t just get a bad review or a rejection. I bring this up because a good friend of mine just read on someone’s blog that they were shocked that her book had finaled in the Ritas. (Or something to that effect)

Now, I didn’t read the blog entry, so I don’t know for certain what it said or who wrote it, but I don’t think it was a literary critic or a reviewer.

Why would you ever say something like that in a public forum? I can be as bitchy and catty as the next person, but I manage to keep it private. I would never say something rude and potentially humiliating where everyone and her sister could read it.

What makes people think just because they have a blog it’s okay to be mean? I don’t care who you are, if your words are going to be seen by anyone with an internet connection, you have a responsibility to control your mouth. Unless you can back it up with some irrefutible facts, shut your big gob.

Words can hurt, so if you can’t say anything nice, don’t say it on the internet.