Kicking it off...

Just a quick note to get this blog kicked off right. 

I'm in the middle of Crazy Month, and while I know most of us have crazy lives every month, March 29, 2017 was our 20th Wedding Anniversary, and April 29, 2017 is my 50th birthday. ***WHAAAT!!!!***

That is what I mean by CRAZY MONTH. 

Last year, on my 49th birthday, we were handed the keys to our new house in Astoria, Oregon -- the Buttercup Cottage. Built in 1918 by the Larson family, it's adorable and quirky and close enough to the Columbia River that we can hear the sea lions barking in the harbor and the Astoria Trolley dinging its way up and down the river. 

For our anniversary, we held a shindig for whoever could come over and share our grill and Party Salad -- and the cottage was packed! Now for my birthday this year, we will also be celebrating Daughter #1's 14th birthday, because her birthday falls on a Tuesday this year, and the other Saturday is the day of Daughter #2's final track meet! Welp. Did you follow all of that? 

So April 29th will be fun - my 50th, Emily's 14th, and the Buttercup Cottage's first anniversary of being our home in the Goondocks. 

Where I'm at with Treetangle Publishing -- I have one and a half books edited for re-publication. This website is virtually done, I've been adding links in the sidebar of this blog page, and I've been working on nonfiction for those pages. I will be tossing more merchandise options on Zazzle too, because there's more to life than pretty mugs. 

This blog post is a bit early, because I have only told some friends and my local writing groups about Treetangle Publishing... but by the end of April I want to be dropping my books back online in order to jump back in the game!