June 3, 2017 World Builder I love creating alternate fantasy worlds. I like to make them believable but fascinating. Here’s a little step into how I build them: In Web of Deception, the world of the Four Kingdoms is vibrant with culture and history. I research elements I want, design [...]
June 2, 2017 Sooty Makeup I’m not really a makeup person. (Okay, I almost never wear makeup.) Someone says “makeup” and I think sweaty post-workout drizzle where my face looked like a tie-dyed T-shirt (which was my teenage inexperience with makeup). Rebeccah, however, is very artistic and does makeup [...]
May 30, 2017 Building Katy Bear “Tell me a story about creation!” Pipes Christina. “Animals!” bubbles Rebeccah. So began a little story about a bear named Katy who wants to see God create something. This story was told for about three years before I wrote it down because Rebeccah wanted [...]
May 28, 2017 Winners It’s been an awesome day. I covered morning reservations and we went to church. I always feel refreshed and ready to conquer the world after church. Today the discussion was about winners. We talked about how all believers are winners in the end because we get [...]
May 27, 2017 Where the Crib is Clean It is 1900 hours. I’m at war. I come in armed with every weapon in the arsenal. I am determined to win this battle. THIS HOUSE WILL BE CLEAN! “Mommy!” squeals the toddler, streaking through soaking wet and followed closely by another [...]
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 [...]