Things are picking up a bit! Yesterday ended with 257 and today, so far, I’m at 556. Still not stellar but not horrible. After all… Took 4 kids to the doc’s office this morning. Two for checkups [they’re great!] and all four for flu shots. Emily [age 6.5] is FINALLY over 40lbs!!!!! And she’s hanging on to a slim weight advantage over her little brother [38lbs]. That won’t last long – she’s only about 2.5″ Read more
The Rancher’s Courtship by Laurie Kingery From the Back Cover: Though Caroline Wallace can’t have a family, she can still have a purpose. Becoming Simpson Creek’s new schoolmarm helps heal the heartache of losing Pete, her fiancé, to influenza. Then Pete’s brother arrives, trailing a herd of cattle and twin six-year-old girls. Jack Collier expected Pete and his bride to care for his daughters until he was settled in Montana. But bad weather and worse Read more
I’m up to 66 words for the night. Better than the last 3 days combined. Still… its like pulling teeth. Think I’m trying to force their relationship before they’re ready for it. I’m going to forge ahead for now anyway though. Was hoping to fit a smooch in right about now but they’re not feeling it, so I’m not feeling it… Another busy week ahead. Wanna see? Monday: check up for 2 kids, other 2 Read more
Yet another goose egg… but my house is cleaner and my office is starting to take shape :D. That’s something. In a semi-related note… my 10yo is at almost 1900 words. She’s way past me, at least percentage wise. She’s nearly 40% done. I’m… 5%. Maybe. Not quite. But I do still have a living room to clean… /sigh/ Best get to it. Would rather be writing. H/h are wanting to smooch sometime soon…
Still no progress though my house is looking better ;). And my back is much better after my doc adjusted it for me. She did mention a possibility of a dreaded A word. Arthritis. I’m still a bit young but having four kids did a number on my lower back. We’ll see how long before I need to go back. I’ve been going every 6-8 mos but by the time I actually go I’m about Read more
I got a big ole goose egg so far today but if I’m gonna make it for NaBloWriMo I gotta post now ;). Had a good day with the kiddos, busy day at work and got caught up on ALLLLLLLL of my schoolwork done for the next week [except I do need to read the last 3 chapters of the text but other than that, no papers to grade, no tests to write, nothing of Read more
It’s been one of those days. 6yo with a dentist appointment who stayed numb until too late to go to school [her nose was numb!], 4″ stack of papers to grade and so on. I’m currently at 2601 for the month which is 952 for the day so far. Taking the smidgiest of breaks to post this so I have a post for the day that’s NaNo related :D. Back to the grindstone… 😉
Hey! Look at that! Posting a book review on Wednesday! 😉 AND it’s Erica Vetsch’s book too! Have I mentioned I <3 Erica? She’s so way cool! And my favorite orange panda rhombus too! [Yeah, most of you won’t get that. A few of you might ;).] Anyway… I picked up A Bride’s Portrait of Dodge City, Kansas while at the ACFW Conference. And since Erica is our guest blogger over on the Pentalk blog today, Read more
Morning!!!! Okay – it’s not morning. But it is day 1 of National Novel Writing Month. This year I’m also attempting National Blog Writing Month which simply means new blog posts. Every. Day. Yeah, we all know what trouble I’ve had with that lately :p. So my plan is to blog my way through NaNoWriMo by posting about it daily. Tips and tricks days. Tired barely managed to get word count posted days. Words of encouragement Read more
Okay – it’s been more than a year since I first claimed my theme song. It’s That’s What Faith Can Do by Kutless. I was over on Erynn Mangum’s blog last night [question of the day: What’s Your Theme Song? – and can I just say that Erynn is cute as a button? And so is her kiddo.] I couldn’t remember for sure the name of the Kutless song, so I hopped back to my blog Read more