I almost forgot!

I almost forgot to blog today. How could that happen? Let’s see, maybe because today —

1. It is in the midst of summer and I was playing catch in the yard, eating pancakes with my family, and watching Herbie the Love Bug.
2. I revised the ending chapter of my YA project from 5:45 am until 9:15 am. In a rare-never-before-occurrence, the kids all slept in and I was able to finish this latest draft. That means, with a few more tweaks to my query letter, I’ll officially take the plunge into the search for an agent.
3. Christi and I worked all afternoon on the second half of our book, Celebrating Writers (Stenhouse, 2012). It is packed full of resources for 40 different celebrations you can try in your classroom. We are hoping to complete the draft by next week.
4. I completed three more scrapbook pages, bringing my middle daughter’s School of Life album up to date.
5. We just got word that our exchange student from Norway will arrive on July 20. She will live with us for the entire 2011-2012 school year. I took another load to Goodwill, finishing the preparation to her room.
6. We made plans for the final projects to prepare for the softball team party we are hosting on Saturday: mulch, check; mow, check; water balloons, check; clean floor, check.
7. The girls began thinking about packing for camp next week.