It's been a busy week

It's been a very productive week. I have a gorgeous book cover and I finished the final edits for my upcoming novel, No Greater Love. Now, I'm working on the second story in the Sons of Aphrodite series and so far it's going pretty smooth.

My husband started his new job this week. He was promoted to trainer right before the Christmas holiday season and this meant that his schedule and everything would change. He still works nights, but now he works at the end of the week instead of the beginning. This will be an adjustment for both of us, but it's also a good step in the right direction if he ever wants to be promoted to supervisor one day. I'm very proud of him. He's worked hard to get to where he is today so a little sacrifice for a while will be worth the outcome in the end.

We kept Snow White for several days a week ago. We had a blast playing dress-up and having endless tea parties and coloring many pages in her coloring books. She is such a joy to be around and when she had to go home, both my husband and I had a couple of days where we thought the house was eerily quiet.

I hope everyone has a great weekend. I'll post the excerpt and blurb to No Greater Love whenever it's been given the green light.

Happy Holidays

The picture above is of my niece, Snow White. It was taken in December of 2008 for their Christmas cards. Tonight when I reminisced over some pictures, I came across this one and thought I would share it with you. She's grown so much since then...hasn't she?

Tomorrow we're off to Little Rock to spend a few days with my family. I can't wait to see my niece and spend some quality time with her. She makes Christmas fun.

 I hope everyone has a very Happy Christmas and Holiday season. I'll see you before the New Year.

Dippin' Dots and the Madness of Christmas

Tomorrow starts the Christmas madness for my husband and I. We're going to incredibly small town of Keo, Arkansas (this will be a first for me) to celebrate Christmas with my husband's side of the family and next weekend we'll be with my side of the family. I have to confess, that family gatherings stress me out a little. When I'm with a group of people, even family, I have a tendency to become quiet and introverted. I've always been more of an observer than anything else, so most of the time I can be found sitting in the corner somewhere, watching others. It's really kind of funny because my husband is very extroverted and is often the life of the party. I do wish I had that particular trait to my personality, but unfortunately I don't. Still...it is fun watching him have fun.

My niece, Snow White, went to see Santa this week and I thought I would share her picture that was taken with him. It's unbelievable how much she's grown this year! As you can tell, she's going through the 'fake' smile phase, so some of her pictures here lately have really cracked me up! When Santa asked her what she wanted for Christmas she told him she wanted "Dippin' Dots" ...isn't that funny? Only my niece would ask for ice cream for Christmas. LOL!!!



Have a great weekend:)

How can it already be December 6th?

I'm ready to get into the Christmas mood. It doesn't help that I've been sick on and off for over a month, but today I'm actually feeling better so I hope I'm finally about to get over this cold/flu that has held onto me forever.

For over the past week, my husband has also been under the weather so it's really been pathetic at the Anderson household. We just look at each other, cough and hope that the other person will get up off of the couch and fix the other one something to drink or eat. LOL!!!!!

This weekend we plan on doing some decorating and wrap the gifts we've bought. A lot of our friends already have their tree trimmed and house decorated, so we're already two steps behind everyone else. It seems like everyone starts decorating earlier every year, which is normally fine with me because I love the twinkling lights and the spirit of Christmas. It's just taking me a little longer than normal to get there.

Happy Friday and my interesting Thanksgiving

I hope everyone had a festive holiday last week. I had a blast spending time with my grandmother, but I admit that although I did have some nice moments spending time with my family in Little Rock, I was definitely ready to come home.

One bad thing was my mother was sick on Thanksgiving. Instead of postponing it, she decided to do the big dinner anyway. I begged her to put it off because of two reasons.
One: When you're extremely sick the last thing you want to do is cook a huge meal.
Two: I didn't want everyone else to get it.

Thanksgiving dinner was really good, but as soon as my husband and I finished our meal we immediately went outside to start putting lights on my mother's house. Over the years my sweet and very agile husband has graciously put lights on my mother's large two story house. Because her house has many peaks and because the roof is not level, he can't just get on top of the house and put lights on that way, instead he has to do however much he reaches every time he goes up and down the ladder. This way unfortunately takes time. A LOT of time. So, he and I spent the rest of the day and into the evening putting lights on her house. On the plus side, it looked really good when we were finished with it and my mother loved it, so it was worth the time and effort we had to put with it.

Another thing that happened was I totally came out about my writing to my extended family. My mother, grandmother, stepfather, sister, brother in law and a few cousins already knew about my writing. Almost all of them own my books and are very supportive of me. Well, my stepsister and her husband and kids didn't know about it. My mother and I were talking about it when they walked up and overheard some of our conversation. I told them about my books and that I write AND read gay romances and my step sister's husband about had a fit. Basically, he told me that I was going to hell in a hand basket and that it's bad enough that I write romances (he actually called it porn) but now that he knows that I write GAY romances I'm doomed to fry in hell for all eternity. He was so upset he left the dinner early. Well, I was glad to see him go, but sad that he's homophobic religious zealot that doesn't have a clue about how beautiful love truly is. How sad it must be to have such hatred and...well fear in his heart. I hope that one day he'll wake up and realize that love is love irregardless of race or gender. At least that's how my God intended it to be.
Of course we did the black Friday thing. We fought the crowd, bought a Wii cheap and finished our Christmas shopping and then went back to mother's house and crashed.

I woke up Sunday with a sore throat. Since then I've been sick. This is the third time in a month that I've had some sort of head cold/flu. Because I've gone through five...that's right...FIVE boxes of Kleenex this past month, I'm thinking of buying some stock with them...LOL.

On a positive note: I've completed my first round of edits for my upcoming release, No Greater Love. I'm super excited about this book and I'm working with a new editor whom I really like. I haven't heard from the cover editor yet, and I'm anxious to see what the cover will be.

I'm also excited and looking forward to reading some Christmas stories from some of my favorite authors this year!! I hope I'll be up to putting up the tree this weekend...if not it looks like it'll be another week. I don't know about y'all, but I'm ready for some Christmas cheer!!

I'll hopefully be posting some pictures from last week on here in a few days, in the meantime I thought I would post some eye candy and my baby girl.

Have a very happy weekend:)