Keeping Up

I am still editing Super Piggy and just finished the draft for Sir Piggy.  In November I intend to write the draft for The GodPiggy (I need a new title spoofing on Godfather). So, if that's any kind of explanation, that is why I am still ignoring my blog.  Stephen and I have still been secretly having fun, we simply haven't shared any pictures.  But today, while working on the manuscript for Authonomy, I wanted to have some of the Super Piggy images online.  So why not post them here? 

One of Stephen's birthday gifts was a discovery flight from his big sister, Mercedes Ciel Nicole, known as Berstecher to her Navy SeaBees.   This gift definitely made the EPIC list and will be next to impossible to top. Not that I'm competitive.   Oh, wait, how silly of me to forget- I AM! When we arrived, child and camera both charged up, we were told that the pilot taking Stephen up would spend fifteen minutes preparing Stephen before the flight.   We let Stephen know that if he wanted to be allowed to fly the plane, he would have to focus on the pilot's instructions- no bouncing around the room, no jokes about what he was told.   Basically, the 'If you're having fun, you aren't doing it right' speech. He was all prepped for a boring fifteen minutes of holding still when the pilot came out.   He said hello in the most authentic Australian accent, then he walked Stephen over to the plane.   "Okay," I told Eric, "I guess ...

Ever decide to save money on a child’s birthday party and just throw the party yourself?  Year after year our parties graduated from hiring clowns and magicians to renting the go-cart range.   This year we wanted to put all the money into his present (a new computer since the old one was driving US crazy), and just have a nice at-home gathering of his friends.   The biggest problem- and I can see that now- is that I put myself in charge of planning it.   Stephen still wanted a cool party and...wait for it.... I am competitive.   Challenge Accepted! (I am also jonesing for the next How I Met Your Mother, if you hadn't caught onto that!) As I tried to decide on a theme, my soon to be ten year-old came up with the theme for me.   He wanted the Percy Jackson books to come to life.  Yay! Then I spent nearly two weeks coming up with Camp Half-blood ideas, scouring the internet for patterns and creating the items needed.  ...