RedHotRomance

I was dreading last week. The deadline for Wolf Tales III was looming, I was totally unprepared for Christmas and my 90 year old mother in law was coming for five days. The men with the "hug me" coats were waiting in the wings...
Now it's the day after Christmas, my husband is on the road, making the seven hour round trip to return his mother to her home, the rush has settled into a crawl and I can look back and actually smile at the fun week we had. First of all, I hope I live to see 90, and if I do, I hope I can still go to the Indian casino, sit down at a poker table and finish in the top five in a tournament. :-) I don't think I could finish top five now! My husband promised to keep his mother busy so I could write, and he did a marvelous job. I won't say how much it cost us in poker losses, but it was worth every penny for those uninterrupted hours of writing time.
It's been stressful and fun and I've had the added bonus of watching Wolf Tales climb steadily in the rankings at both Barnes and Noble and Amazon.com. (Somebody please let me know if there is a twelve-step program for ranking addicts...) We've spent time with family ranging in age from 20 months to 90 years and watching them all interract was a lot of fun. I can't help but sit here on the day after Christmas and count my blessings--a healthy, fun-loving family, a daughter and son-in-law willing to take over the big Christmas Eve dinner where both families blend seamlessly, a new granddaughter due to join us in six weeks, and a career that is suddenly taking off to an entirely new level.
It really doesn't get much better than this.
I hope all of you are having a wonderful holiday. I wish you health and happiness in 2006, and always, a few free minutes every day to curl up with a good book.
Happy New Year!
kate