I have ten girls sleeping over in my house tonight, seven of them are under the age of nine, and within two hours they managed to break the toilet and flood the bathroom with two inches of water.

Sweet!

The most fun thing about overnight camps is that I get to sit down on my knees on the floor and channel my dorky inner ten-year-old, who was ( Read more... )

I did not come up with this. I totally wish I had.

Brothers! Sisters! I see in your eyes the same fear that would take the heart of me! A day may come when the courage of Wrimos fails, when we forsake our novels and break all bonds of word count goals, but it is not this day. An hour of sleep and shattered dreams when the age of novelists come ( Read more... )

FACT: 65 degrees is totally warm enough to get out the tank tops and wax poetic about spring.
FACT: Really good hugs can turn around a day.
FACT: I am officially choreographing a pas de deux to the Twilight soundtrack.  Which is just all kinds of ironic.
FACT: I am getting excited about Florida!
FICTION: I am completely on top of things and everything ( Read more... )

.... sometimes, some things are worth giving up an afternoon off.

Sometimes things turn out better than you expect, and sometime prayer and patience can work wonders.

Sometimes, if you believe in a horse, he will do things and give you things far beyond what should be his capabilities.
Sometimes the same is true of children.

Sometimes they happen ( Read more... )