M'm M'm, Good!

Again, another great issue with my daughter. She's 22 months, and she's taken well to using the potty already. So I put her on the potty this morning, and she went pee pee. Yea! I always make a big deal of it, and give her a little treat afterwards. She stood up to look at it, and we both pointed, clapped, and cheered.(If you haven't had kids, you won't understand.)

Then to "My Daily Surprise", she reaches down and puts her hand in the potty and splashes the pee everywhere. If that wasn't bad enough; before I could grab her hand, she pulls her hand up and puts it in her mouth.

Ok, so I'm totally grossed out by this point, but still haven't reached the best part yet. It was what she did afterwards, that totally grossed me out and made me laugh harder than I had in a while.

She turned to look at me and said, "Mmmmm!"

Oh, geez! Being a mom sure does have it's ups and downs, and I learn something new everyday. I just never thought that one of those things I would learn would be that my daughter prefers pee pee over carrots.

Knock Knock, Who's There?

My 22 month old daughter got to have friends over yesterday. I took them outside and they played in a small pool and a sand box. There were mud pies everywhere. Afterwards, we hosed them off and the other children went home. I took my daughter inside, and asked my husband to watch her while I picked up the chairs. When I came back in, my husband met me at the child gate to talk to me. When I looked behind him and asked where our daughter was, he said she must have went back to her bedroom. So we started walking in that direction, still discussing the afternoon events. Then to "My Daily Surprise", when I walked by the front door our daugther was standing on the wrong side of the glass storm door smiling and knocking. It took me a second to process what was going on, and I had to do a double take. Then it sunk in, and I was like "Oh my God!" Of course it goes without saying, I completely blamed my husband for not making sure the door latched when he shut it. He swears he didn't go out the door, but he's a man; we all know he did. She couldn't have been out there for more than 30 seconds or so, but it was a big deal to me (we can all think about the possible ways this could have ended badly). So I took the opportunity to tell my daughter why she can never go outside without mommy. I can only hope she understands. I'm sure you can guess how the rest of our day went. Definitely not to my husbands daily surprise, he suffered my angry wrath throughout the day!

Five Pages From Hell

So I recently finished my first Novel. It's pretty great if I do say so myself (I have to say that, it's my novel).

The next step; learning how the entire process of publishing worked (Geez, don't get me started). After an ungodly amount of research, I thought I had it down. My query letter seemed to be working ok as far as I could tell. I had received two responses already; one was a form rejection, but the other wanted to see a proposal. So I had a 50% success rate at this point {(as far as I'm concerned anyway :) }. Go Me!

Here is where it starts to sucks. So an agent liked my query, and asked to see my first five pages. I'm thinking, "GREAT!" So I sent the pages, and not a day later she denies me. She basically told me she wasn't as impressed with the first five pages as she had hoped.

So I'm thinking, "First five pages? What? How can you tell if you like a book based on the first five pages?" So I google, "first five pages of a novel". Then to "My Daily Surprise", it turns out it's some sort of agent epidemic. Who would have thought? Apparently the consensus is, you will know everything about the book in those five pages. Also, your first line has to be a 'hook'. Hmmm, I thought the plot and the story was the hook.

So, I look at my first chapter (mind you, it's the third version of this chapter), and I come to the conclusion that my first five pages, well you know; Suck! So I revamped them, and moved one of my other lines to the very front in an attempt to create myself a great hook line (well at least insightful, you know the kind that makes you think). I don't know if it will keep the reader wanting more, but I like it. So here it goes, tell me if you like the line. (Oh, if it's super great, just remember it's Copyrighted. If it sucks, forget I said anything, haha.)

"‘You can not awaken love against its wishes; it is love that will awaken you against yours."

So there you go agents. There is my great first liner. My first five pages have been re-vamped, and I'm ready for the next request of additional materials. You know, this if my fourth version of Chapter one. What ever happened to the third times a charm? Oh well, I'm making my own saying (it's worthy of Shakespeare if I do say so myself-haha) .

"If the first five suck; you'll have no luck!"