May 26, 2017 A Princess Story For Jaquline Jaquline loves to read. As a toddler she loved snuggling with me and reading “a princess story” (what she called any story with a girl in it). Her favorites were “A Little Princess,” “Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm,” “The Lion, the Witch, [...]
May 25, 2017 The Chicken Castle It was one of those days when I felt productive. I’d managed to get the house cleaned, was hanging my third load of laundry, had finished catching up financial reports after our move, and everyone was still breathing. Then there was a squeal [...]
May 23, 2017 Funny Sisters “That never happens in real life.” Have you ever thought that watching a movie? The girls always say that when we watch certain movies. Then we had a day that wouldn’t have been believed without recording. (Still, people would have said “it’s been altered.”) But [...]
May 22, 2017 Trucks! Lucas is almost two. He loves trucks. He loves food. While all of the girls had “Dada” as their first word, Lucas heard the air popper and screamed “Pop-pop!” running into the kitchen with his popcorn bowl in hand. Currently, his newest craze is yelling [...]
May 21, 2017 Please Write More About Ethan! (Brantley Station Saga) One of the issues with writing and being a perfectionist is this: I never view anything as complete! I have hundreds of half-finished manuscripts in various sizes littering my “stories” folder. Because I proof myself better in print [...]
May 21, 2017 Three Generations of Thrill Seekers (Scream!) As a teenager, I went to Six Flags over Georgia with my youth group. My mom was one of the chaperones. (That really means adults who want to have fun and use watching the kids as an excuse.) My mother [...]
May 20, 2017 The Adventures of Long Tail (Rise of the Rooster) Fun Fact: The “Adventures of Long Tail” stories started with a dream my little brother had! We had just moved to a house where the neighbor had dozens of peacocks and peahens (boys are cocks, girls are [...]
Updated October 7, 2020 Who I Am (Introduction) Most importantly to me, I’m a wife, mother, home-school teacher, and friend. That sounds really simple… so, how about adding in our hobby garden, ongoing “school project” flock of chickens, outdoor Guinea Pigs, twittering parakeets, one sweet bunny, the fact that [...]