Am I Slacking, or Should I Give Myself a Break?

So one of my New Year's Resolutions was to send out for publication some of the little stories I've been writing. I'm pretty good about making time to write, terrible about marketing my work. January's over and I'm already behind on my resolution...was trying to send out something once a month.

I'm trying to decide if this is OK. After all, we were on vacation at the beginning of the month, my father-in-law died in the middle, and I'm in the middle of an IVF cycle now and into February. Plus, I was away from home 19 out of 31 days last month (also blowing my "travel less" resolution). It's no wonder that I can't get anything in the mail. 

But I do wonder if all that's just an excuse. That I need to find time to submit things no matter what else is going on. After all, hopefully before long I'll have a baby (or possibly two), and there's no convenient time to do this kind of stuff once that happens, right?

It's hard to know when to be tough on yourself and when to make allowances.