Almost every magazine at this time of year writes about: the count down to the holidays (cue theme from PSYCHO), the best way to cook a turkey (have someone else do it), and checklists to prepare yourself because you can’t possibly be prepared without reading why you need to worry because you aren’t prepared. Magazine covers like this aimed to put us in a tizzy for those few minutes we stand in the check-out line.
Well, I have written before that I love my to-do lists. So, I thought I would share with you my November To-do list:
-Wake up (remember you always want something easy to accomplish to get the day rolling)
-Try to smile through the pain
-Continue navigating my parents’ medical issues and care
-Come to terms that my baby just turned 18
-Stop saying 17 +1 because I can’t bring myself to say my baby just turned 18
-Do a happy jig–Well ok, not a jig-pain makes that impossible, plus I am not really sure what a jig is- but I can shout WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BECAUSE…..DRUMROLL, please…..
THE LAST CHERRY BLOSSOM, my MG historical fiction novel, will be published by Skyhorse Publishing, NYC.
So in late summer/early fall of 2015, THE LAST CHERRY BLOSSOM will be coming to a bookstore near you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
-Shout WOOOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Again
-Pray in thanksgiving for this wonderful Blessing!!!!!!!
Just at the time when I am smack dab in the middle of my chaos and feeling a sense of overwhelming inadequacy, God reminds me he had a plan all along and I need to stop getting in HIS way.
Isn’t it wonderful and humbling how that works sometimes?
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