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2:04pm Friday
I have been having some serious fun lately. I am well rested, I have had a TON of time with Kylie...Next week isn't going to be as much fun, since I have been off of work this week, but Christian should be coming out of the hospital tomorrow or Thursday... We'll survive.
Sunday I got to do the stereotypical grandparent thing - Feed the child junk and send her home with her parents. She had a little icing off of my cake at small groups...and a little blt of angel food cake...Oh yeah, and then we smushed up a little tiny bit of the apples in the apple pie and fed that to her too. I was told that if she didn't sleep, I was to come over and sit up with her. I got a pix message of her sitting up in her crib laughing her head off in her crib at 9:30 at night but no command to make an appearance before R and A, so I turned over and went baclk to sleep! They decided it wasn't entirely my fault, they had let her take a late nap, fed her some junk too...So I was reprieved. She was so cute, mouth wide open like a baby bird. LOL.
Spent most of yesterday walking around the Toledo Zoo with the family. That was fun! It is a neat set up. Since I am a Lucas County resident and support the zoo with my taxes, if I come on a Monday morning between 10 and 12, I get in free. All Lucas County residents have to do is show up, show adress and have a good time all day! And we did, I hope to upload pictures of our picnic lunch soon, they are in Beth's digital camera and she is experiencing "Hormonal irregularities" at the moment. A rather cranky woman all told. So... as soon as I can liberate them, I'll post them.
Been spending time with Mr. Christian in the hospital also. He's doing better. I love it. The PICU nurses are very protective and territorial, until they knew who I was. Then we all got along great. I WANT them to be territorial and protective. He is still a very vulnerable young man. But it did make me feel good. They give me credit for A: All the progress he has made since Feb. and B: Stopping the violence in his home. That is a lot of credit, little of it deserved since I was part of a team, but the professional strokes were really nice.
Working on Wonderfully Made and it is going well. Several reasons why I am trying to write this book:
1) I feel that I need to testify to all of the miracles that have happened in my life over the past year. They are due to God's grace and mercy.
2) I want people to understand the PICU world and the families that are caught up in this. I want them to know the passion of the professionals, the courage of the families and most of all, I want them to know the brave, brave little people who go through so much with so much courage and joy in their hearts... wow...it boggles my mind...
3) We will need the money... It gives me a way to channel money to my kids. Confession time, Ron doesn't know I am cleaning up his journals and using them to help tell his story. I promise, he will before I go looking for a publisher. But he is so proud, and is working so hard, and is getting ready to go to school for his LPN, AND is such a fantastic father and trying so hard...I am so proud that he is my son. And I want to make his life easier. And rarely, VERY rarely, in good cause it is better to beg forgiveness after the fact rather than ask permission and be refused. I have thought about it long and hard and I feel this is one of those times. They are in a financial hole they will never dig out of.
As to why I think I can write a book that is publishable and will make money...Maybe I'm a dreamer. Maybe I'm a little nuts. But if this is a God thing, if God wants it to happen, it will. It is hard sometimes, right now I am going through our journals right after Kylie's birth. I am kind of reliving those days and nights. But I think if I can do this, it will open up new doors, new opportunities. And it will bring some closure to that episode in my life. So...here's Diane, Boldly Going who Knows Where but doing it with all of her heart!
I think I may really LIKE that about me! LOL
Love and Blessings, Diane
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I confessed to Ron today. We are now Collaborating on Wonderfully Made. Feel much better!
DiRN
proud of you for doing a book. let me know how the publishing end goes. did any of those sites work that aid with comments etc.? you can always give ron writing credit for his contribution, especially if it is significant. i am sure he needs the money.
your day at the zoo sounds great. i need to do that, its been soooo long since i did it. ron may want to consider doing a bankruptcy at some point. the bible is all for debt and ways to get out of debt. joyce goes into that in a lot of her books.
i think its great that you are writing and attempting publication of a book. i used to write a long time ago, like from third grade on and then professionally right before college. i almost went the book route myself, but incredibly people try to steal that stuff as well, not just the contracts but also the material even if they don't understand what they are reading or how to put it together. so be careful and guard it, especially if you are offered anything on it. they say a rule of thumb is 50 NO's before a yes, so don't lose heart. you can always begin with periodicals, let them get a taste of your style first. jane i know pays well. about $1000.00 per article. there are also english language periodicals in europe that a person can get into, but they pay less than jane. the market is different now anyway because of internet. your writing style is lovely. its easy to read and that is the most important part with writing.
doing new things and going new places is that keeps the neural pathways developing in our brains. more power to you. lol. without doing that people become demented. for real. i know how you feel about sharing your experience and change. i feel like that with the crippled cats. it helped me grow as a person, as before them i always assume crippled and stupid was the same thing, which is stupid in and of itself. the two are separate. you also get to see the superficiality of people, when you have them. some people are revolted or want to believe they are better off dead. i think in the movie "the island" the guy says it best "i want to live" they are perfectly happy as they are and who says walking perfect is all that important. reminds me of the short story called the mutants, the mutants could float and everyone was prejudice against them for that. then his daughter married a mutant and they had a kid and the kid could float, so he became a grandfather. the grandfather changed his attitude totally and is all proud and saying, he (the grandchild) really is getting up there (as the grandchild is learning to float). lol. i loved that story when i was little.
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