A Non-Post Post

I'm finding it very hard to concentrate on writing a post on writing at the moment. I'm sitting at my parents' kitchen table with my wickedly strong coffee (I can't for the life of me figure out their coffee maker - every time I make a pot, it's either dishwater-weak or undrinkabley-strong), watching my littlest make faces at me while she blows her nose on her third tissue in thirty seconds. A fresh breeze is blowing through the open windows, scented with lilacs, apple blossoms, and a faint hint of cow from the neighbor's pasture (Grace is now on her fifth tissue. I'm moving the box). Joy is still sound asleep in her little bed upstairs, worn out from a full day yesterday of playing, running, splashing in the kiddie pool, and helping on the remodel of GG's (short for Great-Gram - my grandmother) house next door.

Coming back to my old house always inspires me to write. Unfortunately, there's always so much else to do that writing tends to take a backseat. Family, house demolition, weddings, lots of space for running and playing and laughing ... sometimes real life actually IS more fun (not often, mind, but once in a while). And that's okay, too.

With that in mind, I wrap this non-post up with a quote from Kathy Tyers that I have always appreciated:

"Don't make writing your top priority. This advice runs counter to what most people will tell you -- you'll read in many places that you MUST write EVERY day -- but I'm saying that there are more important things in life. Your relationship with God comes first. The time you must spend with your family, and your attention to their needs, is also more important than any job or hobby you take up."

-Kathy Tyers

What are some ways you prioritize your time? Do you agree that sometimes writing, as necessary as it is for we writers, has to take a back burner? Do you forgive me for going without much of a post this week? Has Blogger still been acting up with allowing people to comment, or is it fixed now?