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1. Actually, we have no leftovers. No, we're not big pigs. We went to a nice restaurant for T-day, and since I would've felt weird asking the cook to put some turkey, cranberry sauce, and sweet potatoes into Tupperware containers, we have no leftovers. A neighbor did bring over some pumpkin cheesecake, which was gone by the next morning. Maybe it WAS a good idea we didn't have leftovers.
2. No Christmas decorations yet. I usually put them up the day after T-Day, like 99.9% of Americans. And I will not put up decorations until I've met my writing goal this weekend. It helps that we haven't bought a tree yet (we get the artificial kind since we have cats--the needles can cause digestive problems, a very real problem since our cats like eating lint off the ground, much less a pine needle--and our last tree got left behind in The Great Move of 2006).
3. It snowed! For a day. It melted after two days. But it snowed! Last year, we had to wait until late January for our first snow flurries.
4. After it snowed, I was a bad mommy. I put the munchkin in her snowsuit, deposited her in the snow, moved her arms and legs about, and took a picture of her and her snow angel. She had a "What the hell?" look on her face the entire time.
5. This will be the munchkin's first Christmas. Said munchkin will only be five-and-a-half months old when she has this Christmas. Will she know if she has presents or not? Nope. Will Mommy still buy presents? Yep. But they're all books (like the one above). Most kids would hate books for Christmas. So I better get them out of the way now before she has a memory.
1) The commercial's right: A baby changes everything. In a wonderful way. In a tiring way. In an unexpected way. Did I say in a wonderful way?
2) Thinking you can multitask with a baby is just plain delusional. Being superbusy in college is one thing; I was pre-husband and pre-baby then. I could study for two tests, write a paper, work eight hours at the local bookstore, go to the movies with some friends, paint a picture, and work out for two hours, all the while getting four hours of sleep per night. Now? I just try to dodge the spit-up and call that a successful day.
3) Enough about babies--I had my first library visit for Black Tuesday! Three librarians showed up. In my book, I say three is a successful visit! (Hey, I'm no J.K. Rowling or, at the very least, I'm no Stephanie Meyers--yet.)
4) Speaking of whom, I'm finally reading Eclipse. Stephanie has a great way of writing a guy that reminds me of the good ol' alpha males I used to read in historical romances back in junior high.* I loved these heroes then and I love them now.
5) I'm finishing up the first 100 pages of my next book! I'm still fine-tuning it before attaching it to an e-mail and hitting "send" to my agent. This book has a great story--actually, several great stories involving Reggie, Sara, and Bridget--and I want to make sure I tell those stories as best as I humanly can.
*I used to put grocery-bag bookcovers on my romances when I was 12. First, I wasn't supposed to be reading them, second, it was embarrassing to be seen reading a book with two half-naked people on the cover. My mom told me years later that I wasn't fooling anyone with those brown paper covers.
