google!

you can find adjusting w/ daddy website on google now! under my name, the title or "children's book about ptsd" (i'm the last site on the FIRST page!). woo hoo!!!

feeling discouraged

i'm feeling rather discouraged today as i sit here and print out envelopes for flyers about my bk. last wk i sent plenty to all the various va places listed on the va.gov to washington state and nothing. there is a stack of envelopes w/ flyers ready to be sent to idaho and nevada once i go get stamps and now i'm working on california (va clinics & hospitals only...man, one forgets how big california is until there are tons to send flyers to). but just thought i'd share that the silence sure puts doubts in one's head as to whether one had a good idea or not. on the other hand, my first little check for a little order came today, so that's good, but somehow i'm not very encouraged. maybe if i just got enough sleep i wouldn't feel so down. stupid husband and his nightmares and old dog w/ his wandering in the middle of the night (last night he needed to go out every two hrs. for what i don't know but he'd wander --on our wood floors, clink clink clink--and scratch til we let him out). what a bitch session! its done for now. :)

beatin' the heat last week

Last week it was in the hundreds, as in 103-106, and while i grew up in that kind of weather we had the benefit of air conditioning. here in the pacific northwest, the need for air conditioning isn't as great and many of the older homes (like my own) do not have ac. therefore to beat the heat we headed to the coast for a couple days w/ rob's cousin jamie and her brood. i brought my own camera but didn't use it due to the glare which would've washed out the pictures (especially w/ my shutter being tempermental). but jamie took pics and i copied them and am now sharing. here they be:

at a beach in lincoln city, ryenn and goggles in a section of trapped water between the beach and ocean

izsak in same water and as always, a hat
rob and jamie's husband, cory, waiting for the frisbee to come there way

rob looks like he's walking like a robot

me. notice my eyes are closed, jamie obviously too this on the sly...but there are so few pictures of me, i posted it anyway

rob playing frisbee and if you look real hard you can see the kids in the bkgnd

end of day one and a dinner trip to mo's. one of the rare pics of izsak sans a hat

izsak, 2nd cousin courtney, ryenn and the girl in pink is 2nd cousin emily. they proceeded to dig a large hole between some logs

rob, who stole is hat back from me (and now i have new "old lady freckles") kickin' at beverly beach. you can't see them, but the dogs and myself are behind rob up the beach. it took leo a bit but he soon was obeying "no bark" and managing to chill out. i brought sparky's crate for him and he was very happy he did i think. he seemed quite comfortable. poor old dog.

2nd cousin connor and miss ryenn

here's ryenn again. i should tell a little story. there to the left out of view, is a fresh water trickle to the ocean. i was looking out there watching the kids and there was this girl bent down with blonde hair and i thought "wow, that girl is so dark." and then she bobbed up and i noticed it was MY dark, tanned blonde girl. :)

the cutest picture ever of courtney and izsak (they are almost a yr apart in age, courtney turning 13 this month)

and one more picture of miss ryenn all buired in sand (course she was not enjoying sand all the various places after the fact)

So, there ya go. there's the lastest of the neill adventures. next on the agenda is a wedding we're all going to in a barn at silver falls in two wks! woo hoo!

new website

welp. i got a website up and running about my book. its www.adjustingwithdaddy.com. i have a friend who knows about marketing my site and i'll have to talk to him soon because i don't come up on the search engines (except for my fb stuff). but just thought i'd put an fyi out there. :)