A Loudoun County Mom's thoughts on parenting, books, movies, geek culture and life in general. Oh, and some original writing thrown in for good measure.
Monday, December 12, 2011
OUAT: The Heart is a Loney Hunter
Once Upon A Time is tied for my new favorite show with Revenge, both ABC offerings. They are smart, different, and the twists and mysteries keep me hanging. I love them, especially since some of my older favorites (like Grey's Anatomy, CSI, and Private Practice) have gotten a little stale. I was eagerly awaiting OUAT after seeing very early articles about it, and tuned in anxiously for the first episode...well, the next day anyway, thanks to DVR I never watch anything live anymore. I was hooked from episode one. So far they've been great about keeping the mysteries and twists coming, but last's night's episode really didn't shock me.
According to all the TV blogs, last night's episode was supposed to contain a "big character reveal" and a "shocking" death. There WAS a reveal, and there WAS a death, but I wouldn't consider either a shock.
Friday, December 9, 2011
Prologue - Excerpt from The Road Not Taken
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Why I Love Sabrina Jeffries
Sabrina just released the penultimate book in the Hellions series, To Wed a Wild Lord. I can’t wait to get a copy of it so I can see if some of my suspicions are correct! Although I must admit that I am probably most looking forward to Celia and Pinter’s story coming out in January, A Lady Never Surrenders. Pinter has been a character throughout the series that I have to really enjoy, and I look forward to seeing him spar with the feisty Celia. Alas, budget doesn’t really support my book habit, so I have to wait, but I am patient! Sort of. Often the library feeds my book habit, but I own all the other Hellions books and I’m not going to break the mold with this one. I like to re-read them! Not to mention the waiting list for her books takes months! I feel the same way about the Song of Ice and Fire books. I refuse to get them on my e-reader because as epic as they are, it just seems wrong somehow not to have them physically in my hand when I’m reading.
Happy Birthday to Mommy
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Painting - In the before time...
This is as far as I've gotten. I'll let you know how it looks when it's done.
"A day in the life" - Excerpt from The Road Not Taken
1:53 am – Mary crying. I stumble to the door of her room and listen for a minute to see if she will go back to sleep on her own. No luck. I go in, give her the binky that she threw out onto the floor and sit next to the crib while she goes back to sleep. She lies there quiet, but awake, watching me.
2:25 am – Not exactly sure when she actually fell back to sleep as at some point I drifted off while sitting there on the floor, but I wake up and go back to bed.
4:15 am – Mary crying again. I make it downstairs without tripping over my own feet to make her a bottle. I go into the kids’ room to find Drew sitting awake in the middle of the floor and Mary crying while staring at him. Guess I know why she’s awake. He wants to sleep on the floor in Tommy’s sleeping bag. I tell him to go back to bed. He starts screaming for the sleeping bag. His screaming causes Mary’s to get even louder. I tell him that the sleeping bag is put away in Tommy’s closet and I can’t get it right now. He climbs back into his bed and screams while I deal with Mary, who is by now shrieking at the top of her lungs. She and her bed are both soaked from a leaky diaper. I pull her out and change her…note that both children have been screaming for several minutes now, but husband Sean is still in bed. I finally get Drew quiet and tucked back into bed and Mary clean, but I can’t put her back in her bed as I can’t change the sheets one-handed and she will go ballistic again if I set her down. Give up and take her back to bed with me.
4:30 am – Mary drinks her bottle and proceeds to demonstrate how wide awake she is by trying to crawl around the bed. Sean just rolls over and ignores the whole situation. I get up and try to rock her back to sleep.
5:00 am – Still awake
5:30 am – Lay her down with Sean so I can go pee…takes all of 1 minute, in which time she bangs her head on the wall and starts screaming bloody murder. Idiot Husband realizes he’s about to get his ass handed to him and ever so generously offers to get up with her so I can “get some sleep.”
5:55 am – He brings her back. “She’s tired now.” Hands her off to me and goes to get ready for work. So much for that sleep he thought I should get.
6:25 am – Mary finally falls asleep.
6:30 am – Sean leaves for work. Keep in mind that his office is only about 30-40 minutes away, particularly this early in the morning before rush hour. You will understand this later.
6:40 am – Tommy’s alarm goes off.
6:45 am – Tommy didn’t get up, so I try to ease out of the bed without waking Mary and drag him out of bed.
7:19 am – Get Tommy out the door to catch the bus and decide to try to go back to sleep.
8:02 am – Drew comes stomping into my room, saying “WAKE UP!”…which of course Mary immediately does, grinning at her partner in crime. Time to get them up, bathed, dressed and fed, change dirty sheets in Mary’s crib and let them destroy the living room and watch too much TV because I’m basically a zombie.
Hello World! It's me, Megan!
Who am I? I can’t write that without hearing the song from Les Miserables. That should tell you something. I am a thirty-something stay-at-home Mom of three kids (ages 1, 3 and 9) who fancies herself something of a writer. I’m also a book and movie lover and geek culture enthusiast. I frequently hear “I can’t believe we’re related!” (usually accompanied by an eyeroll or heavy sighing), particularly from my darling siblings.
Why am I here? Okay, so I can’t answer the “big picture” version of that question, but I can answer it about this blog: because I have things to say. I have been struggling with my writing, thinking “why would anyone be interested in this? Why does what I have to say matter to anyone?” A dear friend from my MOPS (Mothers of Pre-Schoolers) group told me that I should let my work out there because you never know whom it will touch. She went on to point out that we never know in whose path God will put us and maybe someone needs to hear that they aren’t alone in how they feel. That really struck home with me (Thanks, Amy!). How many times have I read something and thought “thank goodness it isn’t just me!”? So I am creating this blog for myself, to get out those thoughts that just rattle around in there until they drive me crazy, and for those people…so they know they aren’t alone.
Why LoCo Lit Mom? I’m from Loudoun County (aka LoCo), I have literary aspirations, and I’m a Mom…there’s not really any deeper meaning there.
What am I going to write here? I will be posting excerpts of my writing and random thoughts on everything from parenting to movies to books to local issues to random stuff that’s bugging me. Expect a post-a-palooza for a little while as I have a lot that’s been on my mind. So sit back, relax and enjoy the mess that is my crazy mind.