Continuing on from last year, my son and I have put together a list of upcoming movie theater movies for kids. Very likely, this is not an exhaustive list. Some spots are empty, waiting to be filled by more knowledgeable bloggers…(that’d be you).

I hate to say it, but nothing really exciting has happened to me in the last, oh 48 hours. The conclusion you may draw from this is that I have nothing to blog about.

In writing I’m really, really trying to keep the big picture of my story in mind as I work (plow, really) through revisions. I’m trying to think in terms of ‘Does this advance the story?’, ‘Is this in keeping with the theme of the book?’, ‘Do I really need this?’ And that’s hard. Usually I just go my merry way, which is probably why I’ve written the equivalent of two books now with only one story idea. But at the urging of Bob Mayer, I’ve written down my one-line story idea and posted it on my computer monitor to keep me focused. We shall see…

In reading, I’m still gradually making progress on The Deception novel and have taken to bringing Flirting with Pride & Prejudice to the playground to read it while my kids are playing after school. Very interesting reading.

In family life, my little one, after eating one conversation heart of each color (six colors) and one spare, which was his allotment, realized that he’d forgotten to savor the last one. So he asked if he and I could split one, which we did–a pink one. He totally savored it. Talk about the sweet life!

See? What’d I tell you? Nothing.
But I am working on my WIP, so that’s something!

I’m just not motivated to write too much today (which is a little ironic because yesterday I wrote my PRO column about how to get motivated to write!) But I’m anxious to get back to reading The Deception of the Emerald Ring. I haven’t been giving myself too much time to read for pleasure and since this is a ‘new’ release at the library, I have to have it back in two weeks. You’d think I could read a book in two weeks no problem…but it can be a very big problem. I’m post-poning my writing for the day until later today…when I’m better motivated.

But I had to share…
Friday in the car, my older son asked if there were any animals made out of tortillas. Assuming he was joking, I decided to play along and told him, ‘Yes, the tortilleria.’ Of course, he didn’t believe me and asked repeated questions, things like, ‘No, I mean completely made of tortillas.’ I held firm until finally I asked, ‘If you didn’t think there was one, why did you ask?’ Thought I’d catch him at his joke. So then he says, “Okay, are there any animals not made out of meat.”

!!!!

He was serious! And he thinks animals are ‘made out of meat’! I repeated this conversation to my husband, and he thought nothing of that last comment. I had to slowly remind him that animals are not ‘made out of meat’. They are made out of bone, muscle, cartilage, and an array of other parts. They’re only meat because other animals happen to eat them.

Along those same lines…I was playing Outburst with my family on Christmas Eve and got the clue ‘Baby Animals’. So we had to list names for baby animals, trying to get the ones on the card. ‘Veal’ was on the list.

Does everyone think in terms of meat??