My little girl was about 7 or 8, I think, in this picture.

Today my darling little girl started her last semester in college. In about months, she will have her BA in English Lit, and God willing, will have a job working in publishing. I’m so proud of her.

Here she is at The Londoner celebrating her 22nd birthday.

I don’t know if I can say sold really because the publisher doesn’t pay advances, but earlier this week, Steve and I signed a contract with Astraea Press (www.astraeapress.com) for the publication of Sword & Illusion! The editor said her reader couldn’t put it down and even said it was better than The Hobbit or Lord of the Rings!

I am sure that’s a little over the top, but at least she liked it!

I’m so excited about this!

I’ll keep you updated as more information becomes available.

Going over Noah’s backpack, I see he got marked down in conduct for saying, “What the heck” in class. I asked him why he said it, and he said:

“Trinity was looming over me and I said, ‘What the heck?’”

“She was looming??” He got mad at me and said, “You don’t get it.”

“No, I do and I am so proud of you for knowing the word ‘looming’ and using it correctly.”

He’s nine and said, “She was looming.” Who cares about getting marked down in conduct when my little boy with Central Auditory Processing Disorder used the word looming correctly?

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Later, we were getting in the car to head out to school. Noah has his own planet, Treenix, and has a made up language, Foo Language, that the people on Treenix speak. It tends to be a lot of baby talk type sounds – merp, ferb, meep, barm – stuff like that.

As we were getting in the car, he said, “Marmer harmer. That means, okay, Mommy.”

I said, “How do you say Mommy in Foo Language?”\

“Harmer. Daddy is Darmer.”

“Why does he get a D and I get an H? Is it ‘harmer’ because I’m mean?”

“There’s actually a G in it but it’s silent.”

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So, see why I’m laughing today??