I am taking an online writing class called BYOB - Blog Your Own Book. It's thirty-one days of blogging with a goal to use the posts to make an e-book at the end of the month. I've decided to blog my own adoption story from start to finish, with a few meanderings here and there … Continue reading BYOB
Category: My Own Personal Weirdness
Organizing all the things
Over the weekend, my family cleaned out our garage. All four of us at once. Usually it's just me and one kid or the other, dragging things out and throwing them in the trash. It takes all day, sometimes two. This time I put my foot down and made everyone work together at once. Two … Continue reading Organizing all the things
Holiday Weekend, now back to writing
My dad came up to spend the July 4th weekend with us. He arrived Friday and we thought he was going home on Sunday, but he extended it to Monday to make some much needed repair calls for his house up here and now he's extended it one more day to meet the termite people … Continue reading Holiday Weekend, now back to writing
Huge List of Activities to do with Kids during Covid-19
I started this document ages ago and have shared it with many friends, family members, and FB forums already. It's compiled from many, many different places: lists on facebook, travel websites, space websites, family websites, school websites. It's broken down into categories for ease of use: The Arts, Books, Celebrities, Coding, Crafts, Disney, Exercise, Food, … Continue reading Huge List of Activities to do with Kids during Covid-19
Summer of Themes 2020
School got out a couple weeks ago, but my family has been taking a little staycation. I spent some time working on my summer plan for the kids. With summer camps being out of the question, we went back to the drawing board and decided we were going to do another summer of themed days. … Continue reading Summer of Themes 2020
More groups!
I like to post things on Facebook that I find helpful or that I think other people will find helpful. I've been doing it all week and apparently other people have noticed. I've been added to not one, but two East Texas Covid-19 Help and Support Groups (not their actual names, mind you). So I … Continue reading More groups!
St. Patrick’s Day, social distancing version
Today has been weird, y'all. Super weird. My Tyler Critique Group canceled their meeting, which I'd expected, as all four of us have immune system issues or family members that do. Nick's workplace said they'd let anyone with immunocompromised family members start working from home. The kids and I set up a desk area for … Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day, social distancing version
Pneumonia and other disasters
My youngest has pneumonia -- they diagnosed it on Monday. My family of five had four dentist appointments and one doctor's visit scheduled this week even before that happened. We've been to the doctor every afternoon this week besides that. I still made it to a critique group on Tuesday and led a lesson on … Continue reading Pneumonia and other disasters
Site updates
I'm working on bringing a more professional look to my website as I transition from a more family style blog site to an author website. Most of the blog content will remain the same: meanderings on life, family news, burbling about books I've read or places I've been, writing or crafting thoughts. But the main … Continue reading Site updates
Nano Struggles
I'm really struggling with Nanowrimo this year. I have zero energy, very little in the way of time for writing, and since I spent time working on writing classwork instead of planning this years nano novel, every time I sit down to write, I instead end up spending 3/4 of the time working on background … Continue reading Nano Struggles
