Box of Chocolates

Grand Canyon 2015 I love to travel. Two summers ago we took a 4,000+ mile road trip west that was the hands down best trip I have ever taken with my kids. A million times better than our Disney trip. Did the van get to small some days? Yes. Would I do it again?  In a heartbeat. The summer before going out west we did a tour of Florida. We started in the Panhandle to Key Largo back up the east coast to Saint Augustine, with many stops in between.   At the time we went out west my kids were 9, 10 and 12. My kids two years later are still talking about our trip. It often comes up because of school. One day my son's class was learning about Mesa Verde and the teacher asked if anyone had ever been and my son was the only one to raise his hand.  This has come up a number of times in the past two years. My kids are the only one in class to raise their hands when asked about different locations in the USA. Recently my daughter has had to study the Little Rock Nine and...

Is this thing on?  I'm so glad no one read my last post.  I never want to be a mommy blogger but zero readers?  ZIP!  It is a little disheartening.   I got on this morning to tell a story but I am so discouraged.  Maybe I need to rethink this blogging thing.  I originally started this blog for my mom before Facebook was popular.  I wanted to share with her the happenings of the family because she moved away from her grandkids.  But hey, even my mom doesn't read my blog.   What is the point if no one reads it?  Signing off to reevaluate. 

The life as a wannabe writer. That was my newest idea for novel.  It is really just an autobiography of my attempts to write. I love trying to do NaNoWriMo and CampNaNo but it is not working out for me this April. My word count is low, really low. My word count is bad for many reasons but by trying to do the challenge I realize what I need to work on as a writer. I am too far behind on word count for any kind of novel to be written in 30 days. That is okay with me because I am writing a little and a little is more than not at all. I think just trying to do the challenge each time they open the virtual gates online it helps me learn where I am, and who I am as a writer. I will be the first to say I am a novice. To take on a challenge of 50,000 words is not an easy task for me. I am not sure why I set my goal 50,000 for April when you can choose your writing goal. I know I can write 50,000 words in a month because I have done it, once.   For me I have to accept my realit...