Last night, Kid #1 worked from 4-8, so the hubs and I decided we were going to go out. On a date. Kids #2-4 are old enough to stay home unsupervised, at least for a few hours. And my sister lives close. So do the several cops we know in the neighborhood, should something happen while we’re gone. That pictures is the sunset last night. I took the pic as we walked out of one Read more
I hope y’all had a great day yesterday! We did! My mother-in-law, stepfather-in-law, and sister came over. We did lunch, hung out for a bit, then hubs, three kids (one came home after a bit), a boyfriend, and my sister went shopping. They weren’t out long last night. I went to Walmart today. Hubs and Kid #4 went a couple places today too. I Do. Not. miss working at the mall today. Not even a Read more
HAPPY THANKSGIVING! I hope y’all are having a great day with family and friends! And today, I’m thankful for a 12yo who loves story! She always has, but she struggled for many years with words making sense – her eyes and brain didn’t talk right to each other and it made reading super difficult. But she worked super hard for over a year in vision therapy and then her doc decided that her brain was Read more
Kid #1 was at work, but the other three all helped making sugar cookies with Grandma. It’s a tradition going back at least 20 years to when my nieces and nephew were little. So now we have dessert for tomorrow. I was running around all morning and didn’t get home until time to get started so blog comes now. Hubs is working on the turkey. We’re smoking it this year. Should be interesting – and Read more
I probably write about this every year but… too bad ;). It was a momentous day for us. This is what I posted on Facebook last year: Nine years. It’s been nine years since this sweet boy went in for likely life-saving surgery. At nearly four months old he’d gone from 6lbs 6oz (and 30 days early) to just over 8lbs…and back down again. He’d spent over a week in the hospital trying to figure Read more
I forgot to mention a Netflix movie I watched Saturday. It’s called A Christmas Prince, and I’m sure you can tell why it instantly appealed to me (and why friend Jennifer Major suggested it to me). Besides being a royalty movie, the younger sister has spina bifida – just like my cousin and the character based on him, though the sister’s isn’t as bad and she’s able to walk at least sometimes with the arm brace-crutches Read more
Two of my favorite kiddos! Kid #2 and one of her besties (who calls herself my bestie ;))! They marched in the Christmas parade yesterday in our local town! You can see from the pic what the morning was like. Gray and miserable and cold, but not cold enough to snow. The high school band wore ponchos over their uniforms and most woodwinds had to hold their uniforms UNDER the ponchos! My oldest got to Read more
Three. That’s the number of words I wrote yesterday. And they only kind of count because I edited the last chapter and tweaked a sentence. That’s it. In fact, I’m posting this from my phone, on the couch, under a blanket because I’m cold and that’s all this post deserves. That pic? That was my dog two days ago. Today, I wish I had a fire. So no stats except three more words than yesterday’s Read more
I did it!!! 50K in 16 days!!!! Less really because I wrote more than enough yesterday so 15.5 writing days. WOOHOO! The book isn’t done, of course, but it’s getting there. By the time I stopped last night, I was at over 52K for NaNo and 62K for the book. I’m still hoping to have this draft done by the end of next week but we’ll see how it goes. I’m loving my characters and Read more
SO CLOSE! I had a GREAT day yesterday, though my official NaNo numbers don’t show just how great, because I did delete those 530 words (or at least moved the file to an area that doesn’t get counted since I’m not using it as part of the manuscript itself… but now that I think about it… It might work as the lead in to the later stuff I wrote last night… Hmm… that would be Read more