An Awesome Author!!

Well family, I must say I am a bit disappointed no one responded to my last blog.
Alas, I will still write again.
I did something new yesterday, I wrote an email to an author. She was a new author to me and it was the first of her books that I read. The main character ate chocolate popcorn, especially when she was stressed out. Poor thing had to protect it like we have to guard our food from Nathan. The book was great so I decided to step out of my comfort zone and write the author Diann Hunt. Below is our email exchange:

Diann,
I just read For Better or Worse and loved it! The storyline was great, I even found myself giggling out loud - "Over the Hill" balloons to scare off geese?! Awesome!
I have a question about something in the storyline, in fact it is so important you may want to talk about it on Girls Write Out so it reaches a larger audience. So here's the question....where do I find chocolate popcorn??? I had chocolate popcorn once about 14 years ago and have not been able to find any since. So I created my own version that I only eat at movie theatres. My version is M&M's and popcorn. You let a few M&M's melt in your mouth and when they are at the right melting point, add a few popcorn kernels to the mix. Having said all that, it would be a lot easier to just eat chocolate popcorn.....
Can you help me?
Signed,
Kimberly
Craving Chocolate in Atlanta

Diann's Response:

Oh my goodness, I LOVED this letter!!! LOL!!! You are my kind of friend!! That whole M&M melting in your mouth then eating popcorn thing is soooo me!
Okay, I'm sorry to say the only place I know where you can buy chocolate popcorn is at Carmike's Theater! LOL! Actually, my favorite is chocolate caramel popcorn! It is to die for! I was going to make my character love that, too, but I got tired of typing chocolate caramel and shortened it to chocolate. Ha!
Anyway, thanks for the laugh and thanks for your interest in my books!!
God bless, and happy chocolate eating! :-)
Diann

Diann has a fan for life!! She responded to my email AND she responded within the same day!!
My Amazon wish list gets longer and longer!!

School's out for the summer?!!?!?!?

Yes, it is that time of year again. The time that kids have waited for all year and stay-at-home moms begin to shudder....school's out tomorrow. I have to be honest.....I am just as excited about sleeping in as the kids are!! No snooze buttons, no "Nathan hurry or you'll miss the bus"....just a nice quiet morning snooze. I have been thinking about summer goals....personal goals, goals for the kids and goals for our family. This is where I'd love to get input from others... Here is what I have in mind so far:
Personal Goals:
Work-out 5 times a week
Keep the house presentable
Scrapbook 3 Layouts a week (starting slowly)
Beat Nathan at Mario Cart twice a week
Kids Goals:
Work-out 3-5 times a week
Keep rooms clean - this one's gonna KILL Nathan
Have summer reading completed early
FUN, FUN, FUN
Family Goals:
Love as many kids as possible while in Jamaica and return a changed family
Have a fun family vacation in Destin!! Yahoo!!
At least one game night a week
One fun family event a week
Spend time getting to know one another even better

So, there are some thoughts....let me know yours.

Just Getting Started

Well, I guess I will join the world of blogs! I'm not really sure what I will have to say over time....but this gives me a great opportunity to put some thoughts out into cyberspace. My goal is to do better than my daughter who hasn't posted anything on her blog since April 8th!!

I need to learn how to do this now, because I want to keep our family and friends up to date while we are in Jamaica. Well, with Elizabeth's help I'll be able to do this!!

'Til next time!!