Happy Adoption Day! Today we celebrated Peter and Naomi's seventh year on our family. We offered them several options of activities for the day. Since it is President's Day, Mount Vernon is free. We could have gone to a movie, to Chick-Fil-A, ice skating, etc. But they both voted for the same thing-- lunch at Panera and an afternoon in Borders! =) They are my children, after all.
We've had nasty weather lately. The snowy ice came down, the kids ran out the door, and my plans for school went out the window. We've had a week of snow days, even from homeschooling. But, perhaps they should be called ice days. The precipitation we got was tiny pieces of ice-- about the size of bebes (sp?)-- that froze themselves together, like ice cubes will do if you put them in a bag together. So everything has been covered in a 6 inch solid layer of ice that looks like snow. The kids have been sliding across the yards and streets and having a grand time. Cars have been plowing over sign posts, mailboxes and each other and having a slightly less-than-grand time. And parents across the area have been bandaging knees and elbows from cuts on the ice and occasionally rushing kids into the ER for broken bones and wishing all this would melt so the kids could go back to school. None of my kids have broken anything more than skin, but some of their friends have. And when I was in the doctor's office today picking up a prescription he said he had four broken bones in his office on Thursday. Ouch!
An agent asked to see one of my books. I'm not sure what to do, since she wants it exclusively for a month, and I've just sent the same book off to a couple of publishers and won't hear back from them for over a month. I guess I should have thought of that before I sent out the manuscript and query letters at the same time. I was just thinking no one would ever actually want to see it, so it wouldn't matter. Now I have to figure out what to do.
Well, last night I got 13 hours of sleep (7:30pm to 8:30 am, totally out) and the night before I got 10 hours, and I'm still tired. (How is that possible?) So I'm off to bed. Tomorrow is the first school day in a week and I'd better be up and ready to crack the whip-- or the kids will decide more holidays are in order.
Have a wonderful night!
Book Recommendation for the Day: Same as last time... Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. Last time I'd just started it. Now that I've finished it I can't stop thinking about it. It's about children living at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project and gives a good human view of the people building the bomb, some of their thoughts on what they were doing, their excitement at making great scientific leaps, and their conflicting feelings after the tests in the desert near-by. I'm reading it aloud to my kids now, after reading them a few articles from World Book so they would know key players when they encountered them. A very thought provoking book. No heavy physics-- don't worry.
And if any of you have read How I Live Now (don't remember author-- oh yes, Meg Something or Other-- I'm not going to go look it up) I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Good Night! =)
We've had nasty weather lately. The snowy ice came down, the kids ran out the door, and my plans for school went out the window. We've had a week of snow days, even from homeschooling. But, perhaps they should be called ice days. The precipitation we got was tiny pieces of ice-- about the size of bebes (sp?)-- that froze themselves together, like ice cubes will do if you put them in a bag together. So everything has been covered in a 6 inch solid layer of ice that looks like snow. The kids have been sliding across the yards and streets and having a grand time. Cars have been plowing over sign posts, mailboxes and each other and having a slightly less-than-grand time. And parents across the area have been bandaging knees and elbows from cuts on the ice and occasionally rushing kids into the ER for broken bones and wishing all this would melt so the kids could go back to school. None of my kids have broken anything more than skin, but some of their friends have. And when I was in the doctor's office today picking up a prescription he said he had four broken bones in his office on Thursday. Ouch!
An agent asked to see one of my books. I'm not sure what to do, since she wants it exclusively for a month, and I've just sent the same book off to a couple of publishers and won't hear back from them for over a month. I guess I should have thought of that before I sent out the manuscript and query letters at the same time. I was just thinking no one would ever actually want to see it, so it wouldn't matter. Now I have to figure out what to do.
Well, last night I got 13 hours of sleep (7:30pm to 8:30 am, totally out) and the night before I got 10 hours, and I'm still tired. (How is that possible?) So I'm off to bed. Tomorrow is the first school day in a week and I'd better be up and ready to crack the whip-- or the kids will decide more holidays are in order.
Have a wonderful night!
Book Recommendation for the Day: Same as last time... Green Glass Sea by Ellen Klages. Last time I'd just started it. Now that I've finished it I can't stop thinking about it. It's about children living at Los Alamos during the Manhattan Project and gives a good human view of the people building the bomb, some of their thoughts on what they were doing, their excitement at making great scientific leaps, and their conflicting feelings after the tests in the desert near-by. I'm reading it aloud to my kids now, after reading them a few articles from World Book so they would know key players when they encountered them. A very thought provoking book. No heavy physics-- don't worry.
And if any of you have read How I Live Now (don't remember author-- oh yes, Meg Something or Other-- I'm not going to go look it up) I'd love to hear your thoughts on it.
Good Night! =)
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