Saturday, March 12, 2011
Jack and the Cat :)
My Little Emma
I started to re-organize Emma's books, but was promptly pushed away by the professional. And, to be honest, she did a better job than I would have done :)
Saturday, March 05, 2011
Simply Because
Well, this site has been really quiet over the last little bit. Life has been quiet. Well, maybe "quiet" isn't the right word.
It's been chaotic, with normal stuff.
We've spent the past weeks fighting off one virus after another... it looks like we're nearing the end of it all, the last bits of couching will hopefully be gone soon.
On a very happy and exciting note - well two:
1. Emma - our little second grader - won the reading challenge for HER WHOLE SCHOOL last month. Every year just before the Iditarod sled dog race, the kids do an Iditaread. Emma read her 600 minutes in two weeks, not the allotted six. This made her the first dog in Nome :) No other kids in the school reached her for two weeks after she'd reached her goal.
She was awarded a gold medal from the school, and Mike was fortunately able to miss work for the morning to watch the assembly.
2. Jolene has a book - The Next Door Boys - being published by Cedar Fort (one of the big 3 in LDS publishing) in October. She's looking forward to a good working relationship with them as she has several other projects "in queue." She's been "querying" with her young adult titles (a completely different process than the LDS market) with some really good success. Several agents have a hold of her project, Insight, and she's about to start querying another YA that she finished up a week or so ago.
Mike is busy as work. They've lost several employees to different jobs, or education, or moving, so Mike has been spending a LOT of time helping his boss with interviews. It looks as though he'll be in trial for the next few weeks, so we're going to enjoy him this weekend before he has to jump back into it!
And that's my random update.
Hopefully next time I'll have pictures - but needless to say - when the family's been vegging in front of the TV - piles of tissues at their side - it's just not a pretty picture ;D
It's been chaotic, with normal stuff.
We've spent the past weeks fighting off one virus after another... it looks like we're nearing the end of it all, the last bits of couching will hopefully be gone soon.
On a very happy and exciting note - well two:
1. Emma - our little second grader - won the reading challenge for HER WHOLE SCHOOL last month. Every year just before the Iditarod sled dog race, the kids do an Iditaread. Emma read her 600 minutes in two weeks, not the allotted six. This made her the first dog in Nome :) No other kids in the school reached her for two weeks after she'd reached her goal.
She was awarded a gold medal from the school, and Mike was fortunately able to miss work for the morning to watch the assembly.
2. Jolene has a book - The Next Door Boys - being published by Cedar Fort (one of the big 3 in LDS publishing) in October. She's looking forward to a good working relationship with them as she has several other projects "in queue." She's been "querying" with her young adult titles (a completely different process than the LDS market) with some really good success. Several agents have a hold of her project, Insight, and she's about to start querying another YA that she finished up a week or so ago.
Mike is busy as work. They've lost several employees to different jobs, or education, or moving, so Mike has been spending a LOT of time helping his boss with interviews. It looks as though he'll be in trial for the next few weeks, so we're going to enjoy him this weekend before he has to jump back into it!
And that's my random update.
Hopefully next time I'll have pictures - but needless to say - when the family's been vegging in front of the TV - piles of tissues at their side - it's just not a pretty picture ;D
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