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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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. 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. 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 Read more