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Happy Friday!
I have to confess -- Friday is one of my favorite days of the week. Friday signals the end of a work week for many people. I usually work on the weekends and feel I do some of my best writing then even though I have more time to write during the week than in previous years. But I still like Friday for that "end of the week" feeling.
I enjoyed a special day off this week well ahead of the weekend. I piled my two dogs in the car and drove an hour and a half away to visit my daughter and my almost four year old grandson, affectionately nicknamed K-Bear. He got to pick the restaurant where we ate dinner and chose Golden Corral. Apparently it's the combination of cheese pizza, mashed potatoes, green beans, a small cob of corn, and soft serve ice cream decorated with gummi bears that makes this a top-flight restaurant in his eyes. He provided entertainment by lining up the gummi bears by color around the rim of the ice cream dish -- sort of like a colorful conga line -- before he ate them. Leave it to a kid to make a memorable moment out of a dish of ice cream decorated with candy (and yes, there was some hyper-active but fun behavior in the car on the way home!).
As I drove home later, one of the dogs kept setting his long, Italian greyhound nose on my forearm. It was cold and wet but a nice touch of affection as he and the other dog snored away. Both were worn out by the sugar-hyped grandkid and only woke up when we pulled into our driveway.
Work is going well on edits of A Time to Love, the first book in the three book Quilts of Lancaster series by Abingdon Press due out in August or September. They've interrupted my work finishing up the second book, A Time for Peace, but both editors said such wonderful things about the book that I'm a very happy writer right now.
Oh, and thank you so much, dear readers, for putting An Amish Gathering on the ECPA bestseller list! We appreciate your buying the book and thank you for all the nice notes as well!
I hope that you get to take a little time for yourself this week. It's not too late to enter the contest to win four books by the authors on this website, won't you? The winner will be announced March 1. Just tell me what you do on a day off.
Have a happy weekend!
Barbara
I have to confess -- Friday is one of my favorite days of the week. Friday signals the end of a work week for many people. I usually work on the weekends and feel I do some of my best writing then even though I have more time to write during the week than in previous years. But I still like Friday for that "end of the week" feeling.
I enjoyed a special day off this week well ahead of the weekend. I piled my two dogs in the car and drove an hour and a half away to visit my daughter and my almost four year old grandson, affectionately nicknamed K-Bear. He got to pick the restaurant where we ate dinner and chose Golden Corral. Apparently it's the combination of cheese pizza, mashed potatoes, green beans, a small cob of corn, and soft serve ice cream decorated with gummi bears that makes this a top-flight restaurant in his eyes. He provided entertainment by lining up the gummi bears by color around the rim of the ice cream dish -- sort of like a colorful conga line -- before he ate them. Leave it to a kid to make a memorable moment out of a dish of ice cream decorated with candy (and yes, there was some hyper-active but fun behavior in the car on the way home!).
As I drove home later, one of the dogs kept setting his long, Italian greyhound nose on my forearm. It was cold and wet but a nice touch of affection as he and the other dog snored away. Both were worn out by the sugar-hyped grandkid and only woke up when we pulled into our driveway.
Work is going well on edits of A Time to Love, the first book in the three book Quilts of Lancaster series by Abingdon Press due out in August or September. They've interrupted my work finishing up the second book, A Time for Peace, but both editors said such wonderful things about the book that I'm a very happy writer right now.
Oh, and thank you so much, dear readers, for putting An Amish Gathering on the ECPA bestseller list! We appreciate your buying the book and thank you for all the nice notes as well!
I hope that you get to take a little time for yourself this week. It's not too late to enter the contest to win four books by the authors on this website, won't you? The winner will be announced March 1. Just tell me what you do on a day off.
Have a happy weekend!
Barbara
Posted by Barbara Cameron at 2/26/2010 1:16 AM 
Categories: An Amish Gathering, A Time for Love
Tags: Amish fiction
Categories: An Amish Gathering, A Time for Love
Tags: Amish fiction
It sounds like you had a wonderful time with your daughter & grandson.......and dogs. I can't wait until your new book comes out. It sounds good & I LOVE TO READ ABOUT AMISH. I want to write sooooo bad. I wrote & published 1 book but it was very amateur. I am having problems selling the rest. I have sold over 100 but had to have 650 published. Anyway, I'll go on reading...wishing with all my heart I could do this, too.
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When I have a day off, I do some kind of housework and then sit in my recliner and read. My 4 1/2 year-old grandson would have liked Golden Corral food also; he generally opts for Panera when he gets to choose a restaurant.
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Good Morning Barbara, I also went to visit my daughter and 2 Grandchildren, ages 3 and 5 and we played out in the snow and also the dog
helped knock down the little snow fort we were trying to build, it was so much fun. I sure hope that I win the contest.
God Bless you and yours
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On my day off I spend it with my husband. We will ride quads together, work around the property together trimming trees or going to war with blackberry bushes. Sometimes we just go see family. I enjoy spending time with him, no matter what we do.
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What do I do on my day off? I don't get a day off - I'm retired!!! (haha) I get all the time off I want, when I'm not going to all the meetings of the organizations I've gotten myself involved in. My husband (also retired) accepted a position as pastor at a small church here so visitation, and a lot of the duties he has, I'm also involved in. Oh, I'm beginning to wish I had a real day off!
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Hi, My day off is usually house work getting caught up, but then in the evenings i Like to sit down with which ever Amish book I'm reading at the time. and get lost in the world of Amish living.
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On my day off, I like to curl up on my couch, cover up with my comfy throw and read one of my Amish books -- especially those from my favorite authors -- Beth, Kathleen, Barbara and Amy! They always calm my thoughts and restore my faith! I can never wait for your next books to come out! Thanks! God Bless you all!
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