Melissa, I'm in the same boat you are in and now I am also trying to run a daycare. I just started trying to write during naptimes and late nights. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't - but the progress I'm making is so much more than my being to scared to jump out there. SO GO GIRL!! I'LL CHEER YOU ON!! I'll be moving to Maui soon and want to get involved with their Writers' Association but am very nervous about meeting new people. So I'll be taking a few leaps too. Let me know how you do, I'll compete with you for rejection slips if you want, until we make it.
HA!
Tammy