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The Five!

1. Yesterday, I knocked off writing early to go outside and hang with my kid in the VERY unseasonable warm weather. She spotted a patch of clover in our garden and I suggested we look for four-leaf ones. Now, let me just say, I have NEVER before, in my memory, found a four-leaf clover. And I'm pretty sure I'd remember if I did, as I am a very superstitious, luck-believing (and needing) person. So I wasn't super hopeful. But then: 

There it was. CRAZY! And even nuttier: I found TWO MORE in...

The Five!

1. I am writing this in a coffee shop. Which is just so writer-y, right? I've said here before I can't actually WRITE in coffee shops, because I am too easily distracted. I do best facing a wall or at least a dull view (usually, just some deer wandering by, eating my flowers, that sort of thing). But this has been One Of Those Mornings. You know the drill: up early, crazy chaos trying to get out the door to preschool, dogs barking, no time to breathe. And I have somehow lost my favorite...

Sunday…

…and I will have to keep this entry short, as we are indulging in my new favorite family tradition: Disney movies before dinner. Tonight, it is Tarzan, which I never saw. Maybe it's just me, but I don't remember Disney movies being QUITE so traumatic. I mean, even in the lighter ones there is always a dead parent and a scary villan. Luckily my kid is easily distracted and keeps wandering off during the really worrisome parts. She did, however, just asked me what happened to Tarzan's parents. ...

The Five!

1. I am having one of those days where my brain just has WAY too much to process, and so is processing nothing. I keep calling things the wrong names and losing my keys, that sort of thing. Plus, today I was the Friday Speaker at my daughter's preschool, which is a Big Deal (at least around those parts). I was feeling the pressure. Other parents have done presentations about various cultures, or talked about their exciting jobs as doctors or fireman. I do think my job is exciting…just not to ...

Happy New Year!

Yes, I know I'm a bit late. Eight days to be exact. But one of my new year's resolutions was to try to relax and not run so hard, so much of the time, and enjoy my life a bit more. Hence: less blogging. More princess games. You know the drill.

Still, I AM excited about 2012. I am back to writing (early stages, can't talk about it, terribly superstitious/worried about jinxing myself) which makes me REALLY happy. Mostly because by the end of the book tour I was so tired I was convinced I could n...

The Five!

1. Okay, so it's the last blog entry of 2011. What to say? It's been a crazy, busy year. I saw my tenth book come out and went all over the place to promote it, including a tour stop in Canada for the first time (but definitely not the last). I got to be on GMA holding a YA sign. I spoke at the BEA Breakfast, which was the scariest AND most awesome thing I've done professionally, AND had a Whoopie Pie food truck with my name on it. Whew! I also learned how to make balloon animals, sponsored a...

Ho, Ho, HO!

It's three days before Christmas, and about seventy degrees out. But still! The holiday spirit is finally making itself felt. Although this happy/merry thing MAY be a result of all the baking and eating of cookies I've been doing. Twice in the last week, I have been up before sunrise, making sweets with my early-riser daughter. This is something I can honestly say I did NOT do before being a parent. And I was always up early. But Rice Krispie treats at 6:15am is something everyone should do, ...

The Five!

1. Okay, so it's nine days until Christmas and I am finally feeling holiday spirit stirrings. Mostly this is because my kid had her preschool holiday program this morning. If the sight of a bunch of 3-4 year olds wearing homemade Santa hats and singing "Frosty the Snowman" doesn't make you feel the spirit, you are made of STONE. Plus, there were cookies and punch afterwards. What a great day. But I still need that extra push of Holiday Happies, so I WILL be watching Love, Actually this...

getting the holiday on…

So it's Sunday night, fully dark before 6pm and super cold. One of those winter nights that would be truly depressing in that case-of-the-Sundays way if not for the happy twinkling lights over the fireplace and on our Christmas tree. Thank goodness for them. I may have to leave all this stuff up through March to just to make it to spring.

This weekend, though, we got ENTIRELY festive when Dessen Racing sponsored a float in the annual Chapel Hill Holiday Parade. We got up early Saturday...

The Five!

1. Okay, so I am back from New York for three whole hours and here I am blogging. Why? I have no idea. I am exhausted, my feet STILL hurt and will for a few days from all the walking (I don't know how New Yorkers do it, I am active/run/do the elliptical and STILL the walking slays me, every single trip). But I had SO MUCH FUN that I have to share. So here I am. Tuesday morning, I got up super early, even for me, at 5am and got ready to go. My daughter was not happy, but since husband had...