As ‘lil q gets older, she’s understanding more of what goes on around her. Right now Christmas isn’t anything to her, but as witnessed by her getting her classmates to sing happy birthday to her six weeks after her birthday, she obviously has the ability to comprehend holidays and special occasions. I wanted to do something to celebrate the holiday on my site, but rather than put up 25 holiday posts from me, I’ve asked a group of people to contribute something instead. The only common theme for all of these posts will be they all come from parents. Not gay parents or parents of gay children, just parents. They’re will be gay parents, straight parents, parents with gay kids and …

I’m not usually the overly sentiment type, but as I sat at breakfast with ‘lil q I realized what a great year it had been.  Aside from watching ‘lil q grow up and amaze me almost every day, I have a lot to be thankful for.  Not necessarily in chronological order:

So yeah, I’m a bit behind, but hey, better late than never.  The DC Metro Area M/M Romance Readers met on November 16. Mike was able to come this time so we made it a family outing.  Thanks to Joyfully Jay for being our fearless leader and to Treva Harte of Loose Id Publishing for hosting the event.

NaNoWriMo has been interesting. Much like a lot of things, November started with a surge – the first 12 days I averaged almost 2000 words a day.  The last five I’ve done less than 800 a day.  That said, I’m hoping to get to that 50K mark by the end of the month.  Not sure it will be done at 50k – doubtful really – but at least I can say I made the 50K threshold.  If I do make it, I’ll have written almost  double the number of words in one month that I managed in the six prior, so no matter what the result, it will have been a good exercise.  I’ve got an updater on the right …

‘lil q had her pictures taken at school – I think they came out quite well, even if I am biased. 🙂

The weather in DC is beautiful today.  Mike took took this video of ‘lil q and Emma while they were out for a walk today. This is more proof that the expression – a girl and her dog – is every bit as true!

This is my blog’s 200th post. I wish I had something stupendous to announce, or wildly entertaining. Instead I figured I’d use it to do what I had planned to do today all along – post an update. Boring? Perhaps, but I try to make it mildly interesting if I can. When I started this site/blog, it was meant to promote my first book and the others that would hopefully follow. I had no idea what that really meant – even if at the time I thought I had it all figured out.  In the 199 posts that preceded this one, I learned a few things that I hope will make the next 200 better. I’ve almost finished Book Two …

As some know, I’m the cook in the family.  But this year is my first time doing NaNoWriMo so I felt I needed a little help in the kitchen. ‘lil q volunteered to help and she told her daddy how she was going to make the pizza for dinner.

Took ‘lil q to her friend ‘lil a’s b-day bash.  Hard to believe they are two already. It feels like just a few weeks ago we were taking pictures in the pool at swim class but that was more than a year ago.  Here are the pictures – feel free to comment if you like.

Today is Day Two of the Fall Apart Blog Tour and I’m really pleased to be the host.  Please take some time to read the guest post from S. E. Culpepper and learn more about her new book, Fall Apart, book #4 in her Liaisons series. Be sure to enter the contest at the end for a chance to win one of the books in the Liaisons series.