Alana Morales and Stay-at-Home-Anythings

Today’s Girlfriend’s Cyber Circuit tour brings us Alana Morales, author of Domestically Challenged, a sort of guidebook for career women turned stay-at-home moms.

Says Alana: ““When I first started out as an at home mom, I had no idea what I was getting myself into. My house was messier, I was more stressed out and I quickly realized that I needed help. I turned to books, but I couldn’t find anything that offered practical advice, so I wrote my own.”

From the back cover blurb:
When you decided to stay at home, you probably thought about the quality time you’d spend with your kids and the wonderful meals you would cook. Maybe you even thought you would do some decorating or take up yoga.

Later you realized things would be different. Your house is messier. You still have days where the kids drive you crazy. And then you wonder – what did I get myself into?

See, I know what that’s like, and I’m not even a mom. I’m just a stay at home writer, and I feel like *I* need a guidebook. We’re now going on week three of stay-at-homeyness, I still haven’t
signed up for yoga or tap lessons or vegetarian cooking classes, or any of the other things I said I’d do when I started writing full time, I haven’t made a *real* dinner in weeks, I haven’t started jogging in the mornings, my house is a disaster, and I’m nowhere near my 10-a-day goal.

In short, I’m a mess. Maybe I need to get my hands on Domestically Challenged. After all, I think Alana must have a lot of stuff figured out. She’d a mom, a writer, and plus, she’s got this radio show to boot! I’m barely managing the writer part…

In other news, I’m trying (yeah, it’s on my To Do List, along with everything else) to formulate a standard list of questions for my GCC tours. You guys want to help me come up with some? A lot of the girlfriends have questions that have something to do with their own releases, such as Tanya Lee Stone’s “bad boy” questions or etc. But I can’t really see myself asking “What is your deepest darkest secret and why don’t you tell my blog readers about it?” Ya know?

So anyway, off to work, today, and to try to get my life in some semblance of order…