Saturday, August 02, 2003

 

Wow, things have changed around blogger. Been too long again.

I'm on the jet set again. Tomorrow afternoon we leave on a flying (i.e. fast driving) trip to Virgina. James is teaching classes while Xander and I get to see the sights. We'll be about 2 hours or less from D.C. and Gettysburg. It's going to be fun. Also I'll get to visit a friend (Hi, Alicia!). Then, when the week is over, we'll be flying (see before) down to Gulf Shores for a week vacation with the in-laws. We have a beach house across the street from the beach! The houses were surprising-ly non expensive.

My writing has been portable-lized. I bought an expanding folder briefcase for less than $9 that holds my 'writer's toolkit' and even a couple of my favorite resource books. I'm working on two novels at the moment- my brain likes to flip/flop even though I want to work on a particular one.

I'm trying to work through the plot and characters before I write. With one of these two stories I've had many false starts because I don't know where the middle is going. I bought a book on plot, but the silly thing contradicts itself in the same paragraph! I even read the paragraph to the hubby and he suggested throwing it out!

Uh-well. Other news around here: My summer reading program work is over! Yeah! Xander one first place in the Read-to-me and believe me it was all him. He wanted to read those 464 books, AND to top it off, many of those books he wanted read 2 or 3 more times than we counted on his record. I wasn't like the other parents that forced their children to read that many books. But anyway...

Xander has a kitten. He showed up crying in the bushes one night. Some bowl of milk and about two 'kitten training' sessions (i.e. me sitting very still while kitten got curious and brave) and he was hooked. He is a pain about getting in the house all the time, but he's a sweetie. I'm trying to get Xander to name him, but he's stuck on 'Nanu'. He named his panda bear 'Nanu', so I'm trying to get him to name kitten something else, but to no avail yet. He spontaneously named a toy farmer he has 'Beau' and the Panda 'Nanu', but he doesn't name all his toys yet.

Xander is so smart, he amazes me. The other morning he woke up and as I was changing him he said, "Bats...fly...church...sleep." He's seen the bats fly around the lights at the church building and I wonder if he's dreamed about them. :)

Well, I'd better get back to packing. TTFN!

Dawn posted this at 10:36 PM.

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