Here's the thing...

I like to write. It's true. It's fun and gives my brain a chance to be active. But I also like to read. Two powerful forces at odds with each other. I only have so much down time to spend as I please. So do I read or write? Choices, choices...

With school out and kids running amuck all over the place there's very little time for either one. So one day I'm in the doctor's waiting room furiously scribbling revisions with one eye on my manuscript and one eye on the kids and the next day I'm getting the oil changed in the car while reading through my first book in a freshly purchased pile from B&N so fast my eyes are vibrating. 

So here's the question. In my flash and dash world of getting it all done how is it my kids have time to lounge around, get bored and watch TV till their brains melt while I'm trying to both write and read novels five pages at a time in between the everything else I do?

Something tells me I should take some time to observe the ways of the teen and take some notes...