Live life ✔, Write ✔

Note: for privacy purposes all posts containing my family use altered names for each of them.  I chose to use the same aliases that I used in the Stanton Sisters series.  If you are interested in those books, they can be found here .    *   *   *   *   * I have had a lot of pets over the years.  By the time I arrived in this world my parents already had a beagle named “Queenie.”  Since then, I’ve had dogs, cats, fish of all sorts, rabbits, a baby raccoon (for a very short time), gerbils, bearded dragons, parakeets, green anoles, a tree frog, hamsters, guinea pigs and a turtle.  Oh yeah, and let’s not forget about the chickens.  (See that story here , if you missed it.)  Despite the knowledge that they are animals, with a much shorter life span than humans, I do tend to get very attached to our pets.  I also hate to disappoint my children and watch them suffer when one dies.  So we really give it our best to know...

  If you’ve stuck with me all the way from “How it Started” (found here) and through the “Mazagines” years (found here) then you’re probably wondering what comes next ; How it’s Going ?  I am too, actually.   Some days I feel like we’re doing great (by God’s grace my record of keeping the children alive though each day is still 100%, and that’s no small task), and other days I strongly suspect that I’m slowly and systematically ruining one - or all - of them, and just haven’t realized it yet.   What does come next?  This, for one, I guess; writing.  It’s something I didn’t really have much time to do before, and one day - when the remaining two marbles rolling around upstairs get cracked and dull - I want to have these memories recorded in a way that I can enjoy them over and over, every time I forget how much I’ve been blessed.  Also, writing stays put.  It doesn’t get messed up whenever I turn around (like everything else I do…) ...