Okay, you caught me. I am writing these blog entries, because I feel that I really have very little occupying my time these days. Of course, I'm sure this down time is just the proverbial "lull before the storm".

Since my wedding day in March 2007, I have been patiently waiting to start my new job as a hospice social work. Oh, I have been doing some administrative work, going to trainings and such, but I haven't seen my first client yet in this new position. As the new "Mrs. Pace" I tried very hard to get interested in the whole housewife role. That wasn't really challenging enough, or maybe the house is just too quiet. (No kidlets yet). So I had to jump on the Internet again.

At first, I thought.... "Maybe I should get a job that I could work from home?" I had been updating the Cafe and found a member's web page that had links to jobs for at-home mothers. But after reading through about 5 different websites on the topic, I realized that in many of the cases I had to spend money on mail-lists for jobs in order to start making money. Ack! I didn't want to spend money.... heck I'm a humble newly wed living in a basement apartment trying to scrape together $20,000 to buy our first house. 

Then my new husband, Timothy, asked if I could use the Social Work Cafe to make a little extra money. I had seen other social work websites charging for ad space, but after thinking about the concept, I said no. The Cafe had always been FREE and that is how it should remain. Besides, I wanted the Cafe to remain a "fun" activity for me.

Next, I decided to try my hand at writing; hence, this blog. I thought, maybe practicing my creative writing again would spark a new ambition of sorts. There's just one little itsy-bitsy problem. A blog is a one-way form of communication! Seems unnatural for my social work identity to be the "talker".  But maybe there is something to say - if I focus on one topic and some research to my blog.

So this is what I am going to try from here on out. I have picked a personal topic, that when I was in college about 5 years ago, I hadn't found much information on. The topic is children who grow up with chronically ill parents. Maybe a journal written by an adult, reflecting on childhood experiences will add something new to the knowledge base!