Emma Weylin
I go by the pen name Emma Weylin. My real name is kind of boring, and I figure it is best to already have the pen name known for when I publish. I am married to a wonderful landscaper named Leigh. We live in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with our seven-year-old daughter, Pink, our five-year-old daughter, Bugs, our four-year-old SuperHeroDog, Zeke, and our three cats. I live in a circus.
I am a Stay-At-Home-Mom and an aspiring author. Of course I can do both at the same time. The chaos I live in gives me plenty of inspiration.
I have had many jobs over the years, some of them memorable and some of them not. I have lived in and around the Pittsburgh area since I was three. I am originally from Wisconsin. Please, no cheese jokes. There was a year or two we lived in New York. It was long enough for my parents to give me a little sister. I am the eldest middle child of four. I have an older sister, a younger one, and a younger brother.
I grew up in the suburbs of Pittsburgh, and I graduated from Woodland Hills High School in 1996. I did just enough in school to graduate. I knew what I was going to do with my life and I had a plan, and of course none of it involved a further education.
I got married in the summer of 1998. That same year I developed pneumonia while visiting family in the state of Wisconsin. If it wasn’t for my husband and my family, the tiny Wisconsin hospital would have killed me. Between my husband’s stubbornness and connections my Grandfather had, I was transferred to a hospital in Milwaukee. My doctor there was from O’Hara township here in Pittsburgh. Within a few weeks I was on the road to recovery, and on my way home.
In December of 2001 we had our first daughter. We call her Pink, and I prefer to keep it that why on the internet. Life as a parent wasn’t always easy for me, as I have Delayed Sleep Phase Syndrome, but I managed to muddle through it with the help of my husband. Our second child was born in October of 2003. It was another near death experience for me, but again, with the support of my husband and my family, I pulled through.
I kept my job for a while and let my husband be the Stay-At-Home-Parent, as he is better with infants than I am, and my job had the medical insurance. In 2006 we made the decision that it was time for me to stay at home full time and my husband started his landscape and snow removal business. It’s been a struggle, but all his hard work is starting to pay off.
I am addicted to both caffeine and nicotine, both which I plan on kicking someday. The caffeine will probably happen sooner than the nicotine, but with the prices on the rise, who knows. Gotta love how those taxes work.
I am hoping this will chronicle my life as I struggle with being a mother in modern America, and as I reach for my dream of being a bestselling author. Life has it’s many twists and turns and it’s little ups and downs. There are moments of so much happiness it’s difficult to remember the bad times, and when the bad times hit hard, I am always sure there is no good to life. Perhaps this is my attempt to deal with a world gone screwy while I have to raise children. Who knows, it will be whatever I make it into.
I enjoy quite time. When there is no sound in the house and I have to wonder if the children and the pets are plotting against me. I like spending time with my writing buddies, and I haven’t watched TV since April of 2007. I don’t miss it.
