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Happy Tuesday!
As you might have noticed (I’d like to think you noticed!) there were no newsletters last week—this is what happens when I’m working on a book and suddenly I look up and say—wait. Where did the week go?
Hubby comes in around then and says, “remember me?” Poor guy.
Happy Friday!
Oh, how I love Fridays in Florida. (To be fair, I love them in Minnesota, too) and I’m loving them even more with this addition of this fun hot tub!
Hubs and I dreamed of a hot tub…we did not dream about the price, however. So…he came up with a crazy idea…what about one of those inflatable hot tubs?
Happy Tuesday! Let’s start with this sweet snapshot from Sunday’s beach day with some (not all!) of my favorite people.
That’s my husband, our adorable grandson, my niece, and her friend, all huddled together building a sandcastle masterpiece. It was one of those perfect days where the world feels a little brighter,
Happy Friday! I’m back from my travels, into the warmth of Florida (and it’s a gorgeous 70+ out today!)
This is a quick note because of, well, this…
But, I wanted to give you a couple of warm Friday Fuzzies…
First… This girl. Who loves her puppy. I mean seriously,
I’m in snowy North Carolina today, with these lovely people, brainstorming projects for 2026. I’m surrounded with fabulous story ideas.
As I’m writing this, I believe Minnesota is under a blizzard warning, and we’re currently brainstorming a “trapped in a snowstorm” story.
(I love a trapped in a snowstorm story…and by the way,
So, as you heard on Tuesday, I was deep, deep, deep into the final chapters of the final book in the Minnesota Kingston’s series.
I love this series. It’s based on the hymn And Can It Be, That I Should Gain (by Charles Wesley) about God’s amazing love,
My senior year in high school, in the month of February, I caught a wicked case of strep throat. Or so I thought. I kept going to the doctor, they kept swabbing my throat, the tests kept coming back negative. But I kept running a low-grade fever, and my throat swelled up.
I lost fifteen pounds.
So we did a thing this weekend.
We love our backyard in Florida. What we don’t love is the hot hot sun on our deck. So…I convinced hubs to build a patio cover for the deck. He was thrilled.
Just to be clear, I helped too. I held stuff. And cleaned stuff.
So, I know it’s not Tuesday, but let’s pretend. I was buried deep in writing a novel on Tuesday, looked up around 5pm and said…oops. No newsletter today.
So…let’s make up for that with ALL the news. ALL the pictures.
What’s fun today?
Well, there’s this…
One year ago I was at my daughter’s home,