Photo 365 #158

January 12, 20153 Comments

We had our final family Christmas get-together last night with my sister and her family. At the end of the evening, we were talking about pictures and the respective hundreds that we have on our phones. Bubbles walked up and said, “Mom? Can you take my picture?”

bubbles

I was pretty happy with how this one turned out, but a little sad, too. He used to ask me to take his picture when he was little, and then he’d immediately want to see it. If I was using my digital camera, it worked fine, but he just couldn’t understand why I wouldn’t immediately show him the ones I took with my film camera. Actually, he still doesn’t get it, but anyway.

Cricket and Thumper used to do the same thing, but now when I try to take their pictures, Thumper won’t sit/stand still and Cricket says, “No, Mom – don’t take my picture.”

Guess this means I’m gonna have to improve my stealth skills. 🙂

Photo 365 #157

January 11, 2015January 10, 20154 Comments

Yesterday Miss Tadpole decided to take the boys outside to play in the snow. Thumper was all excited to bundle up, head outside, and build a snowman.

That lasted all of about five minutes. Then the cold got to him and the screaming began. At least I got some nice cuddle time while he warmed up under a pile of blankets.

Cricket, on the other hand, didn’t start screaming till he was forced to come inside. He wasn’t ready to be done playing, but he wasn’t listening, either, so in he came.

This weekend has given us the warmest temps we’ve had in quite a while – mid-twenties above zero! – but there’s a breeze, and it’s knocked the wind chill down well below zero. Still, at least it’s better than the last week.

Photo 365 #156

January 10, 20154 Comments

It’s been a long day already, and it’s not even noon yet.

“But Mom, I just wanna watch Dungeons and Dragons!”

Thumper was up bright and early at 6:30 a.m., which was shortly after Seymour woke up for work. Naturally, then, I was also awake bright and early, first chatting with Seymour before he left for the day, and then snuggling with my favorite little bunny.

The rest of the morning has been spent supervising a grumpy Bubbles, who’s doing penance for letting a shed door get torn off by the wind the other night. If things keep on this way, I’m gonna need a stiff drink by the end of the day.

How are you spending your weekend?

Photo 365 #155

January 9, 2015January 9, 20154 Comments

Looky what I found in my mail the other night!

This picture doesn’t do justice to the vibrant colors of what will soon be in a frame gracing my office wall. It’s a signed print I won from Aädenian Ink, and it’s signed by the artist, Myka Jelina! I was pretty dang excited to finally get my hands on it, and now I can’t wait for my office to be done so that I can hang this beauty up.

After all, every fantasy author should have a little bit of fantasy in their writing space, right? Right. 😀

Photo 365 #154

January 8, 20158 Comments

Some people complain about working lunch breaks, but really, I don’t mind them. In fact, I think they’re a heck of a lot of fun.

lunchbreak

Maybe that’s only because my idea of a working lunch break involves taking off to parts unknown and spending time with all sorts of crazy characters. 😀

Photo 365 #153

January 7, 20156 Comments

2013-04-29 12.10.19 I’ve been hard at work on a couple of projects this week. It’s nice to feel that I’m being productive again, after an extended bout with the lazy bug.

Oh, who am I kidding? I needed an extended bout with the lazy bug. 🙂

Anyway, I finished rewriting chapter 16 of The Price of Mercy and got a decent start on chapter 17 this noon. I’ve been polishing my query up a little more, too. I’ve finished formatting the e-book version of my new poetry book and have moved on to working on the cover. And have I mentioned the story that Miss Tadpole commissioned? I’ve been working on that, too, and have set it in Lokana, about a thousand years before the events in The Price of Mercy. It rhymes and is rather like a fairy tale, which has been both interesting and challenging because it’s not the sort of thing I normally write.

There’s still lots to be done on all of these projects, but I’m having a lot of fun with them. What are you working on right now?

Photo 365 #152

January 6, 2015January 7, 2015Leave a comment

I love my boys. I love that they get along so much better than my sister and I did when we were little. Cricket and Thumper are best friends, and it’s wonderful.

brothers

That said, they’re also three and four (read: they don’t always share well). So when they were playing nicely together the other morning (i.e., sharing) while watching Dungeons and Dragons, I had to take a picture. Lately there’s been too much fighting over who has whose toy car, and I relished the morning’s relative peace.

I know I’ll miss this stage one day, and I hope they can stay best friends as they get older.

Photo 365 #150

January 4, 2015Leave a comment

spiderman Cricket loves his new jammies. He’s hit the superhero worship phase, and he loves the same heroes his big brother used to love.

I was impressed I managed to get him to sit still long enough for a good picture, and even more impressed that I managed to catch this lovely smile. They come and go as quickly as Thumper does. 🙂

Photo 365 #149

January 3, 2015January 4, 20152 Comments

Well, would you look at that – they’re wearing their coats!

coats

It’s the middle of winter, so you wouldn’t think this would be so remarkable. But Monday night, Bubbles went to spend a week at his dad’s and left his coat at home. It was maybe 15°F the next day, so his stepmom drove him over to pick up his coat.

We were supposed to get a bunch of snow this weekend, but so far, we’ve only got a dusting. At any rate, Friday night his dad stopped to pick up his boots, because he hadn’t taken those with him, either. *sigh*

Apparently Bubbles is going to be one of those kids who wears shorts when it’s five below. Insisting his sweatshirt is good enough is only the beginning.

Photo 365 #148

January 2, 20155 Comments

My cousin and his wife came for a visit yesterday. We don’t get to see them very often, so it was nice to see them. We exchanged Christmas gifts; we visited; it was a good time. Cricket and Thumper enjoyed opening presents again, but I’m not sure if they had more fun with their new toys or the wrapping:

“I’m a present!”

That poor bag definitely paid for itself. First Cricket wanted to sit in it, and I think he sat in it for five minutes. As soon as he got out, then Thumper wanted in. But Thumper is a perpetual motion machine, and he was tired to boot, which meant he was going even faster than normal just to keep himself awake. He sat in the bag for a couple minutes, then he wanted out. Then he wanted back in, and then he wanted back out. I bet he was in and out of that bag seven or eight times. It was pretty entertaining.

We still have a couple Christmas celebrations to go yet, but I’m enjoying the seasonal extension. It just didn’t feel like Christmas this year since we didn’t get the tree up right away.

Are you all finished with Christmas? Or do you still have some celebrating left to do?