Sunday, January 20, 2008

 

Yesterday was Abby's birthday. We awoke yesterday morning to a surprise! There was about 2 inches of snow on the ground! It was still coming down with big huge flakes too. This was only the 2nd time that we've had snow and we've lived here almost 12 years now. It was the first time that it was still snowing in the day time. It didn't stop until almost noon.


Here are some pictures of us playing in the snow.

Abby's Strawberry Snow Cream

While we were 'sledding,' a man from the local newspaper pulled up and said, "This is just begging for a picture!" So, we are looking for our pictures to be in the paper next week. And, of course I told him it was Abby's b-day!

Labels: fun, snow, winter

Dawn posted this at 8:25 PM.

Saturday, January 12, 2008

 

Writing news!!!
I actually have writing news to share! My father-in-law knows someone who owns his own production company. They produce basically documentary-type shows now. It has always been the owners dream to produce a fictionalized movie. He had an idea in mind, he just wanted someone to write it. Well, my FIL told him about me and the guy asked to see some of my work. I sent him a couple of chapters of a novel and he liked it. He's asked me to write a couple of scenes of his screenplay and he'll see what he thinks of it. There's been no mention of payment - yet.

But I am enjoying it. The fact that I'm working on someone else's framework is fun. He had a bare-bones story (about 20 mins of screen time) and wants me to flesh out an interesting story that hopefully could be 1 1/2- 2 hours of screen time. It's a tall order, but so far I'm managing to add in some interesting stuff. He focused mainly on the main character and I'm fleshing out some minor characters at the same time showing the main characters 'character' also. I'm very pleased at my ideas so far. I'll keep things posted here - now that I have actual writing things I'm doing! It's good to be back with 'pen in hand.' :)

On the adoption news, there's been so much I haven't posted. Basically, the girl mentioned in the last post rejected us. Since then we found a brother/sister pair that seemed just perfect for our family. But our paperwork (grr, dreaded state government red tape!) didn't go through in time and the kids are going home with someone on MLK Day! We just heard one day last week and we were devestated. Now we have no other children in mind and are in a waiting period agian. It seems at every turn God is teaching me patience. I am not a patient person and some days it feels that I've learned nothing from this experience. But I press on. We were just about to give up on the adoption thing entirely. I spoke to Xander about it. At over six years old I figure he can at least influence our decision a little now. He wants us to find a boy about his age for him to play with. It is a nice idea - if we could find the right one. I grew up in a family with 1 oldest boy and 3 younger sisters. Most of my childhood memories our brother had left home, so I'm used to girls around the house. Boys are a bit rambunctous for me. I'm not opposed to having another boy, but I'd like another girl to tone down things a bit.

We don't know what God has in plans for our family, but one thing is for sure, He does have plans and we will hang in there until the end. ;)

Dawn posted this at 11:46 AM.