Couple things made me cry the last couple days. First, this video – security camera footage from inside the Joplin schools during the Joplin Tornado in May of this year. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAtN_ILP44k&sns=fb] In Suburban Straightjacket, a tornado based on the Joplin Tornado [in the fictional town of Cooper, MO], plays a Read more
Edit: Would help if I remembered the “Na” in “NaNoWriMo”… /sigh/ First order of business!!!! MozArks ACFW is pleased to announce that Tracey Bateman will be our very special guest speaker this month!!! And now… My very much less exciting update ;). At least as far as NaNo is concerned. Read more
Today is my birthday :). Wasn’t a great day. Wasn’t horrible. Had many fabulous well wishes from friends and family on Facebook! Well over 100 posts which is really nice. Still a bit melancholy though. Not for the first time. And it’s not about getting older either. Last year, Matt Read more
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 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 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 Read more
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. Read more
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 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 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 Read more