A family friend from my childhood forwarded this picture to me a few days ago and I loved it for so many reasons… It was taken at my childhood home in Visalia outside by the pool… It was June and my mother’s birthday… My father was still alive and wearing his new cool 70’s glasses […]
Category: Mom World
Friends, Mondays & Realities
I just got my 15 year old out the door in a hurry. Mac is talking in his crib and I need to get my 6th grader up in a few minutes but I have a moment to myself and I’m going to grab it. I need to regroup and take a deep breath and […]
Little Angel
Tomorrow we show the house for the first time. It’s not even formally on the market. I’ve been working on getting the house ready to list for weeks and am tired. And then, just when I think everything is finally perfect and ready for tomorrow morning’s showing, Mac opens the spice cabinet and unscrews the […]
California, Here I Come!
Tomorrow morning Ty Gurney, Mac and I jump on a plane for Fresno, California so I can make a book club event in Visalia Wednesday night and then Thursday morning we race down to Southern California for 4 more days of book events. I’ve got a very fun 5 pm Happy Hour for my readers […]
Christmas Cards & Games
It’s that time of year… and something I love getting… and enjoy sending…. Christmas cards! But there’s a little problem–although my cards have gone out to my readers, I’m getting quite a few back! Apparently I don’t have current addresses for some of you. (Or even a mail address at all!) Have you moved in […]
Christmas Disaster Stories
My friend and fellow author, Molly Harper is guest blogging with me today. I had the pleasure of meeting Molly this Fall when I attended the Kentucy Book Fair in Frankfort. We happened to sit next to each other and it was very cool spending the day with her. Molly is a Kentucky girl and we […]
A Good Year
I’ve been making photo albums for my family of the past year and I’m short hundreds of photos from losing my camera twice (twice!?!) in the past year, but of the pictures I do have, I am reminded of what an incredible year it has been. The first six months of 2010 were really difficult […]
He’s Soooo Busy
Thank God Surfer Ty arrives in the morning on a red eye from Honolulu because I need him to wear his son out before his son wears me out. Mac is the busiest boy I’ve ever had and at eighteen months he is clever and curious and persistent and creative, as well as a little […]
A Grateful Heart
It’s a powdery white Thanksgiving morning here in Bellevue, Washington. Monday’s snow stuck and it’s been snowing steadily since I woke up three hours ago. Supposedly temperatures will rise to 40 later today so our snow might melt, but for now I savor the quiet white morning and think about all I have to be […]
Feels Like the Holidays!
It’s snowing here! Both my older sons went to school elated about the snow flurries. The oldest, my high school sophomore, predicted early dismissal since his high school is up a steep hill and school officials don’t want a bunch of teenagers navigating a slippery hill in snow and ice. My 6th grader wore his […]
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