Happy Birthday to My Mom

 Last week we celebrated my mother's 83rd birthday. We actually got to go into her care home and bring grandkids and birthday cake. We sang and hugged her. It was wonderful. I am excited to announce that I finished FIREBUG, a middle grade novel inspired by her childhood in Rexburg, Idaho. I am looking for a publisher to help me bring it to readers. 

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US First Ever Free Kindle Promotion!

This week, my brand new book, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US, is free on Kindle for the first time ever!

I'd love to have you download, read and review it. It needs some more love on Amazon and Goodreads. 

This is a first love story that tugs on your heartstrings like SING ME TO SLEEP and TAKEN BY STORM. You'll fall in love with Will Glover like you did Derek and Scott and Michael--I promise. 

Plus, it's set in Scotland, so if you love Scottish guys and accents as much as I do, you'll love this book.

The promo is going well so far. It hit #1 on the free Teen and Young Adult Historical Romance ebook list. Exciting stuff! 

And #8 on the Scottish Historical Romance List!! Not sure if we really fit on this list. Take a look at the other titles. YIKES!! My books is Scottish, historical and romantic. But it is also a literary coming-of-age journey. 

After you read it, let me know where you think it belongs.

Thank You Presents for all my Readers!

Thank you all for your support of AN OCEAN ATWEEN US! You are already making a difference. I've got three presents to show you how grateful I am for your continued support..

First, SING ME TO SLEEP will be free on Kindle tomorrow, Tuesday, June 3, and June 9 and 16th!

Second, I am posting TAKEN BY STORM in its entirety on WATTPAD.COM! Enjoy and please tell your  friends.

And, third, here's an excerpt from AN OCEAN ATWEEN US! It's still just $0.99 on Kindle.  Watch this blog. I'll be posting more excerpts. (Read first three chapters free at www.angela-morrison.com.)

From Chapter 1,  Who will kiss me?

 . . .  I scan the other maids dancing in the shadows of the coal works. I’ve kent them all forever. Like Lucie, here, who I’m spinning and catching like I have so many times afore.

“Will ye be playing for us tonight?” Lucie eyes the wee pipe that hangs about my neck from a bit of yarn snitched from Mither’s workbasket.

“Aye, lassie.”

Lucie steps to the center and her feet flash as the other maids make way for her to perform the setting steps. She’s always light and fleet. Moves like a fairy. She spins and faces me again.

“William Glover, the Fourth.” She drawls out my full name with a fetching frown on her face. “It’s no proper for ye to be calling me lassie no more.”

Lucie has her thick, black hair pulled back and pinned up. I’m used to seeing it long and dirty, filled with more rats than the coal pits, flying every place at once. I do not have the heart to tell her about the swatch come loose from her pins and hanging down her back.

“Begging yer pardon, Mistress Lucie.” I squeeze the hard-worked hand she fits into mine. “Ye do look like a proper maid this evening.” There’s warmth behind my words that surprises us both. My face gets hot, and Lucie turns pink. She grows confused and misses a turn.

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US - Launch Celebration Sale!

I'm celebrating the release of AN OCEAN ATWEEN US with a $0.99 Kindle sale. The price will be reduced for a limited time so hurry and download it now.

I'm so excited to share this book with you--my wonderful readers. I've been working on it, one way or the other, most of my life.

Growing up, my mother told the most thrilling bedtime stories about my Scottish ancestors who emigrated in the 19th Century. As a teen, I discovered a wealth of family histories gathered by my grandmother and great grandmother. As a young mother, I began researching the Glover family, Scotland, coal mining, and every place they stopped on their journey west. 

Decades of research, trips to coal mines in three countries, an MFA in Writing, four published YA novels, and a gazillion drafts later, I'm so pleased to bring you Will Glover's story, An Ocean Atween Us. I did my utmost to make it every bit as thrilling as my mother's tales, and, of course, added a big dose of romance. 

I hope my ancestors aren't looking down from heaven and shaking their heads. I have to admit, I turned my great-great-great grandmother's big brother into the hottest collier lad to ever leave Scotland and broke his heart a couple of times along the way. This is a novel--not a history book. I think the Glover family will be pleased to live again in its pages. I did my best to convey the gritty reality of 19th century coal mines, ocean voyages on tall ships, and frontier settlements. I also didn't shy away from the realties of Will's relationships as he comes of age in a new land. He's a flesh and blood, flawed character who struggles--like all of us.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JX52CF4

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US ebook is now live on Kindle!

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is now live on Kindle. We're still tweaking the cover for the print version,  but I'm so excited to share this novel with you I'm offering the ebook at a bargain "pre-release" price of $1.99.

So, if you want to be one of the first to read and review it, you can download it now. Enjoy!

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00JX52CF4

FREE KINDLE DEALS--Act fast!

This weekend I'm up in Utah at the LDStormaker Conference, and I'm running Kindle deals and free promos for the participants and all of YOU!! Please, please, please share them with your friends. The promos run from today to April 26th at midnight. ACT FAST!

SING ME TO SLEEP is FREE!!! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HG6YI8Q This is the first time ever I've been able to offer SING for free. If you love it and don't have it here's your chance!

TAKEN BY STORM is discounted to $.99. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B008H5MVZW

UNBROKEN CONNECTION is FREE! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003Z0CUHI

CAYMAN SUMMER is FREE!! http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0052MFSGW

Remember, you don't need a Kindle. You can download the Kindle app on your smart phone, tablet, or any computer.

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US Cover Update!

Andy just sent me a work-in-progress draft of the cover. It's really coming together. I love the ship, but we've decided Will's face is a bit too wide and maybe he needs to be a tad more handsome. I'm loving the hair, though. He's still working on the rigging ropes, water, and sky. The more I look at it, the more I like it.

What do you think?

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US

I've got some exciting news for my devoted readers who've waited and waited and waited for a new book from me. The wait is just about over!!

Last fall, after some deep soul-searching, I left my agent, and now I'm managing my work myself. I finished my revision of SLIPPED and am happy to report it is under consideration with an editor I'm dying to work with.

After even more soul-searching, I decided to indie publish my historical coming-of-age love story, AN OCEAN ATWEEN US.

It will be available, literally, any day!!!  I hired my son's company, iqSoup, to design the cover, and their illustrator is working on an original painting for it right now.

Here's the rough sketch to give you an idea of what we're planning. I can't wait to see this come to life.

I've been working on the back cover text. So, imagine the painting above with a handsome brooding hero staring out at you. You pick up the book, flip it over, and read:

Will Glover, a proud Scots coal mining lad, is forced to leave Lucie, the lass he loves, behind when his father commits the family to a mining venture in the New World. Despite the ocean that will separate them, he vows to return for her. Angry with his father and broken-hearted, he resents the dangers he must face and nurtures the loneliness in his soul. One devastating letter, brings all his plans crashing to the ground. Will he spend the rest of his life cankered with bitterness or learn to forgive and love again?

SING ME TO SLEEP and TAKEN BY STORM readers will recognize the luminous, heart-wrenching, coming-of-age love story they’ve come to expect from award-winning, critically acclaimed author, Angela Morrison, set in a very different time and place. After decades of research and rewriting, Morrison brings you a story inspired by her own heritage and what she terms her “masterpiece.”  

AN OCEAN ATWEEN US is the first book in Morrison’s WE, GLOVER'S series, a family saga told in intense, coming-of-age journeys, from one generation to the next.

You want to read more, right?

I'm Back!

I've been off-line so I could concentrate on writing new books for you to enjoy, but I've returned to bring you back an old favorite, SING ME TO SLEEP's new Kindle version is now live in Kindle bookstores around the world! Merry Christmas!!

So where've I been? Well, last Christmas--just a few days after my last post--instead of relaxing and enjoying our grandkids who'd flown in from the East coast, our daughter who'd just got engaged, and our son and his wife who'd just moved close to us, we bought a new house and sold our old one. It all happened in a matter of days. I'm still trying to catch up.

Then, as planned, after our daughter's wedding and our youngest graduated (as the salutatorian for his high school, yes I'm a proud mamma), we packed our bags for Switzerland. For the past six months, we've been traveling back and forth between Arizona and Switzerland.

Moving is not good for writing--even worse for blogging. I did manage to get back to revising my time-travel post-nuclear winter rogue assassin meets Jane Austen heroine in medieval Europe novel, SLIPPED. With the help of my critique bud who swapped manuscripts with me all fall, I got a full draft completed. I'm at the polishing stage. I'll give you a taste of it soon. I promise. I think you'll love it.

I hope you all have a Merry Christmas and a wonderful New Year!  What have you all been up to? I'm dying to catch up.

Christmas Giveaway!

This Christmas I'm hosting a giveaway where everyone wins! I'm offering all three ebooks in the TAKEN BY STORM saga FREE!!

If you haven't read all three books yet or know friends who would enjoy Michael and Leesie's love story, here's your chance to get or share them free.

This is the first free promotion I've run for TAKEN BY STORM's new ebook. To get your free copy, go to Storm on Smashwords, click buy, and enter coupon code BC82K at checkout to download a free copy. The code is good until June 30, 2013. Feel free to share it with friends and followers. Smashwords has a gifting option that makes it easy to give. You can give as many ebooks to friends as you'd like.

UNBROKEN CONNECTION and CAYMAN SUMMER ebooks are only available via Kindle. Amazon has free Kindle apps and software for any device you own, so you don't have to own a Kindle to get them.

UNBROKEN CONNECTION is on free promotion starting midnight tonight through December 27th at midnight.

CAYMAN SUMMER is also free tonight at midnight but only through December 26th at midnight. It will be free again starting December 27th at midnight through December 29th at midnight.

Got that? Okay, enjoy!

I hope to have news of a new book for you soon.

Merry Christmas!

Angela

Prayers for the Season

On December 6th, Bill O'Reilly reported that a six-year-old girl in North Carolina wrote a poem for Veteran's Day about her grandfathers who both served in Vietnam. In the poem, she wrote, "They prayed to God for peace. They prayed to God for strength." Someone complained, and the Superintendent of McDowell County Schools decided this child couldn't write about her grandfathers turning to God in times of trouble--at least not at school.

I prepared to write a post about all the books I love--from Katherine Paterson's Bridge to Terebithia and Kate Dicamillo's Because of Winn Dixie and my Arizona author friend Amy Dominy's debut novel, OyMG--that all have characters who pray. Maybe someday I will write that post and share quotes from those prayers, and my worries that we are replacing spirituality with magic, but not today.

The testimony of twenty first graders in Newtown, CT, speaks far louder that I ever could. As the entire nation, "prayed to God for strength" and "prayed to God for peace," we learned what the young girl in North Carolina learned from her grandfathers. God is there. He is real. He hears and answers prayers. And sends strength, peace, love and comfort. He soothes broken hearts and teaches us how to bind each others wounds.

I've felt His power in times of loss in my own life. In Leesie's words, "Happiness . . . filled me up. Tangible--like you could pour it from a pitcher." Like Leesie, I was "overcome" with the power of God's love. Prayer unlocks it. All you need to do is ask.

I don't know why a troubled young man shot those beautiful children in a sleepy Connecticut town, but I do know that now they are wrapped in God's loving arms--and he won't let them go until their parents are ready to join them forever.

All my love and prayers for you, my wonderful friends and readers, this season of celebration and goodwill,

Angela

Free Ebooks and English Teachers

Starting at midnight tonight, Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer  on Kindle!! I'm flying up to Las Vegas for the National Council of English Teachers (NCTE) annual conference. I'm excited to spend three days sharing with and learning from the nation's English teachers.

I'm presenting "An Author's Toolkit: Techniques from the Pros," with two friends from Vermont College. I'm so excited to see them again. I'm also part of a roundtable discussion on digital storytelling, "Getting Digi With it," where I'll be telling them all about my amazing readers and what we did here together with Cayman Summer. 

I'm running the free promotion for the English teachers, who are my heroes past and present, and for you, too! Thank you again and again for all your love, patience, and support.

Free "Plot Challenged" Webinar

My free 2-hour webinar, "Plot Challenged," is Wednesday, October 17th, 7 PM EST. Follow this link to register http://www.writingforchildrenlive.com/Angela_Morrison.html 

If you have a hard drive full of great ideas and a few opening chapters, this webinar is for you. I'll go over four plotting strategies that I use and editors expect.

The webinar is available online, so writers can join us from anywhere in the world. If you can't make the live broadcast, no worries. Registrants have free access to the call for 24 hours following it.

If you missed my first teleconference, "Get them Talking: From Dialogue to Scene," you can download it for a small fee at http://www.writingforchildrenlive.com/Angela_Morrison.html 

After this webinar, I shall get back to posting about Michael and Leesie . . . I promise!

FREE Teleconference Tomorrow!

My free teleconference for writers, "Get them Talking: From Dialogue to Scene," broadcasts October 3rd--tomorrow! Kim at Writing for Children Live tells me that if you phone in or tune in online for the live broadcast, you'll get to ask questions. 

If you've ever had an agent tell you to "show not tell," you need this teleconference.

I teach an easy-to-understand, no pressure technique that will help you craft dynamic scenes that will create a movie in your readers' heads. 

This teleconference includes a detailed handout you can download plus my guide to punctuating dialogue as a bonus.

We're offering a follow-up, free 2-hour webinar, "Plot Challenged," on October 17th.

The broadcasts are available via telephone and online, so writers can join us from anywhere in the world. If you can't make the live broadcast, no worries. Registrants have free access to the call for 24 hours following it. Following that you can purchase the teleconference for a small fee.

Follow this link to register http://www.writingforchildrenlive.com/Angela_Morrison.html  Please join us!

Reading at Changing Hands

I and several other Phoenix area authors will be reading and signing books at Changing Hands, Thursday, Sept. 27, 6:30-8:30 at Writers Unite to Fight Cancer's awards ceremony for their first writing contest. I was honored to judge. You are all invited! Its so much more fun to have friendly faces in the audience. See you there.

Free Teleconference and Webinar starring ME!

I'm excited to announce I'm presenting my workshop, "Get them Talking: From Dialogue to Scene," on a free teleconference call, Oct. 3rd, 7 PM EST sponsored by Writing for Children Live. Registrants have free access to the call for 24 hours following it. 

I'm doing a follow-up free webinar, "Plot Challenged," on October 17th. 

I love this concept. As an author, I get to share my expertise with fellow writers without leaving my cozy office. And writers get a lecture from the comfort of their own homes. 

Follow this link to register http://www.writingforchildrenlive.com/Angela_Morrison.html 

Back at the Blog with new Cayman Pictures!

Hello, hello, I'm back at the blog! I didn't mean to take such a long break after the big celebration and contest in July. I spent a few long days packaging up books and swag and then gave in to summer time! But I have a treat for you that I hope will make up for it.

While my hubby and I were in the Cayman Islands, I took lots of pictures to share with you. I hope you CAYMAN SUMMER fans can imagine Michael and Leesie wandering down the dock, looking out the window, lying on the beach, or hopping on the dive boat.

This is me with our dive master. She was great! 

My feet on the dock!

Prizes! Prizes! Everywhere Prizes!!

I just drew all the prize winners for our big Tenth Anniversary Giveaway. I had so many prizes in this contest that everybody won! YAY!!! I love that. Check out the list to see what you got. I should be emailing you for your address tomorrow.

I awarded one prize per person, and then put everyone's entries back in the draw for the totebag. I didn't give anyone the key chains because they turned out bleck.

I'll send bookmarks with the swag prizes. If you won a book, I'll mail you bookmarks in a separate envelope.

Okay, drum roll . . . . . the winners are:

US GIVEAWAY

signed 3-book Taken by Storm set - PENNY
signed Taken by Storm first edition hardcover - SUSAN
signed Taken by Storm new paperback edition - MARGARET, RACHELLE, DIANE, COURTNEY, MARIA, AUTUMN, JENNIFER, TRISHA, MARLA, TRICHIE
signed Unbroken Connection - JOLI, TRESSA
signed Cayman Summer - MIRANDA, BRITNEY
Taken by Storm T-shirt - MARSHA, JIMPAT, HEIDI, TORE, CHALEESE, GALE, LAURIE, ELLIE
Taken by Storm Poster - MICHELLE, RUTH, KATIE, VIVEN, TUROBTERP
Taken by Storm Notebook - SARAH, DEB, JESSICA ROSE, ATREAU
Taken by Storm Totebag - MICHELLE


INTERNATIONAL GIVEAWAY

Taken by Storm paperback - BRUNA, JESSICA ASATO
Taken by Storm ebook coupon - ROWYBIB, MARISKA, LARISSA, ANA MARIA, LENA, WOMBATZ, DISINCENTIVE

Congratulations everyone! Thanks for coming to my party. It's been wonderful to meet new friends and greet old ones. Love and hugs to you all.

Again, I will email you for your address tomorrow. If you didn't leave your email with your entry, please email your address to me at angelamorrison [at] mac [dot] com so I can give your your prize.

10 Years from Today Michael Swam out of my Brain

Day 5!!! Exactly 10 years from this date Michael escaped the churning confusing that is my brain and found a voice on my page during the first free write I ever wrote. Read the whole story here. If you don't know the story of how he got trapped swimming in my subconscious, you can read that here. So hooray!! Dance and sing, "Happy Birthday to Michael!"

You have until August 31st to  enter the big giveaway and  download the new Kindle Taken by Storm ebook for only $0.99. Until midnight tonight get Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer free on Kindle. They will be on sale for $0.99 through August 31st.

This week well over 3,000 readers have downloaded Unbroken Connection and 2,000 downloaded Cayman Summer. Unbroken Connection broke into the top 100 free on Amazon and stayed at #1 on Kindle's Bestsellers in Children's Social Issues list. Taken by Storm made it onto the coveted Bestselling Books for Teens on Love and Romance list--and hit #12 at one point. Now that's something to celebrate. Lots of new readers to welcome to our family.

It's been so much fun to reminisce with old friends and meet new ones. Thanks to all of you who helped make this week happen. Today, I reveal why I love to write break-your-heart-coming-of-age teen romances at Imaginary Reads. Thanks, Kris for hosting me.

Plus, my favorite protege (I like to call her that because she is so brilliant), Jennifer Shaw Wolf, is hosting me on her blog. Stop by and read the interview and check out her fantastic debut release that everyone is talking about, Breaking Beautiful. I am so proud of her. She is a fantastic writer. Jen reaches out and nurtures everyone in her path. She is made of kindness. That comes through in her writing and makes you love her characters with unusual intensity. I am thrilled for her.

Leading up to this week of celebrating, I've republished "Storm's Story" that I wrote to chronicle Taken by Storm's journey on my original website. I saved this post to share with you today. I wrote it from Singapore.

Happy Birthday, Michael and Leesie. And thank you all for keeping them in your hearts. Sharing their story with you continues to be an amazing journey. Each new person who reads Taken by Storm feels like a sister. I treasure each one of you.

My husband took this picture of TAKEN BY STORM at the Times Square Barnes and Noble in NYC!

"Taken by Storm on Sale this Week"
from "Storm's Story," March 9, 2009


I thought this week would never arrive and all of the sudden it’s here. Lexa sent me this launch day present--the preliminary cover for my next Razorbill novel, SING ME TO SLEEP. What do you think? I’m loving it. Best present ever.

Actually, that's not what it looked like--but that's another story!

They are considering changing the cover for TAKEN BY STORM’s paperback to be consistent with this more understated tone. That could be good, too.

I celebrated this week putting together the final details for my launch tour. No time to party--yet!
The real celebrating starts in a couple of weeks when I hop on a plane and come flying home. The tour has been a ton of work to put together, but it will be a blast. I’m speaking at 31 schools across five states--Washington, Idaho, Utah, Oregon and Arizona--and doing five bookstore events. I’ll be blogging about the tour on ChatSpot.

I’m in SINGAPORE, so I haven’t got to see TAKEN BY STORM actually on a bookstore shelf yet, but I heard from one of my dearest writer babe buds who moonlights at an upstate NY Barnes and Noble. She says they got FIVE copies in. That’s a lot for a debut author. YIPPEE!!!

And there is an e-version available. Amazon is hawking it for their new Kindle.

I have to confess to a naughty secret . . . I’ve become totally addicted to tracking my Amazon sales rank numbers. The realities of expat author-dom. The first time I looked at it back in February it was 1,070,448. The lower the number the better you book is selling--so over a million isn’t too hot. But then it jumped to 190K the very next day! After that it crept up slowly to 600K. Launch day, March 5, it was down to 140K. Yesterday it zoomed back up to 300K, but TODAY it’s 45,309 for all books and #47 for children’s fiction on death and dying--kind of a gloomy list, but I’ll take it. And, drum roll, this is big . . .  #91 on teen fiction that deals with dating and intimacy. I have no idea what all this means in terms of sales, but--as addictions go--it’s relatively harmless.

Who knew I could be this crass and commercial about my art? Writing is a business, too, though. If I want my art to continue--especially Michael and Leesie’s story--TAKEN BY STORM must sell well. In the realities of today’s market, AMAZON can make or break that. I kind of have to pay attention.

My Michael and Leesie bulletin board. It's pieces are now in BYU's Special Manuscript Collection.  I tore that magazine cover off a Scottsdale tourist magazine. Doesn't that couple look like Michael and Leesie grown up?

Oh, how young and naive I was as an author. What I didn't know then was how much I'd have to overcome to continue Michael and Leesie's story and how many amazing readers and bloggers would be there to help me do it.

Leesie Q&A LIVE

Day 4 in our celebration! We welcome Leesie for questions.  Don't forget to enter the big giveaway!  Download the new Kindle Taken by Storm ebook for only $0.99. And through Friday, July 20th at midnight get Unbroken Connection and Cayman Summer free. They will be on sale for $0.99 after the promo.

Today I'm featured on Rachellewrite's as her Thursday Thought guest blogger. Thanks, Rachelle for hosting me! Stop by and read my thought, "Take Joy in the Miracle of Creation."

Margaret, the founder of Writer's Unite to Fight Cancer also helped publicize this week's party on her blog. WUFC is sponsoring a writing contest this summer. I'm judging the YA entries along with some other fantastic authors. This is your chance to receive critiques from professional authors and win some recognition, too. If you write, please enter. Deadline is August 15th.

Now, here's. Leesie. Welcome!

Leesie: Thanks, its good to be here. Sorry Michael was so grumpy. He's so into privacy these days.
Angela: What did you think that first day when you walked into physics and there he was sitting in the back row? Were you attracted to him? Love at first sight?
Leesie: Every girl within a fifty-mile radius was attracted to him. Physics wasn't the first time I saw him. Tekoa High School has less than a hundred students. He was in all my classes. So beautiful. So wounded. You know that Kelly Clarkson song, "Beautiful Disaster?" That was Michael. I tried not to stare, but my eyes betrayed me. They searched for him and stuck every time they found him. DeeDee was the first person to talk to him. Poor guy. When he told her to, "get the hell away" from him and caught me staring again, my face flushed hot. At least I had my big, fat physics book to hide behind. My heart raced. I could barely breathe. Yes, I was attracted to him. And when I had to put my book down when class started, he was staring at me.
Angela: A reader wants to know what you favorite line in Taken by Storm is.
Leesie: "I'm much better online than in person." It's so true!
Angela: Michael says you like the new cover.
Leesie: Yeah, it's great. I can imagine myself more in that picture. No faces. Michael complains about the pink sky, but I love it. Have you told them about the posters? They look great.
Angela: Are you writing any new poetry?
Leesie: I wrote a ton on my mission. We had an hour every day to journal, so I wrote every day. I've been too busy lately. I'm taking creative writing, though. That will force me to write.
Angela: Another reader asked how your faith has been tested over the years. Has you faith made things easier or more difficult?
Leesie: Good question. My faith is an integral part of who I am. It caused problems between Michael and me at first, but it made me the girl he fell in love with. If I hadn't been shaped all my life by going to church, praying, and listening for the answers, would I have had anything to offer him in his darkest days just after the hurricane? He didn't know it, but it was my faith that offered him the peace he felt when he was with me. I had the hardest challenges when I felt I was no longer worthy of my faith. When I felt I wasn't good enough to pray anymore. To evil to be forgiven. That was a lie. Michael, who didn't believe, saw that before I did. No matter what happens you can always turn to the Father of us all. His love is constant.
Angela: Okay, this one is a SPOILER ALERT. Readers, if you haven't read all three books, skip this question and ask your own in the comments. Ready, Leesie? Michael filled us in on your immediate future plans. A reader asked how many kids you guys want to have. Michael said you want 20! True?
Leesie: If they all look like Michael, I'd have twenty kids in a heartbeat. My Mom had a hard time getting pregnant after me and Phil. I don't know if I'll have the same problem later. So far--that hasn't been an issue for us.
Angela: Are you making an announcement?
Leesie: No. It's too soon to go public--but feel free to read between the lines. I'll just say I recently dropped my 8:00 a.m. class. Mornings are yucky.
Angela: So this is way to early for you. We'll leave it at that then. Go back to bed and get some rest. Eat soda crackers.
Leesie: Okay, thanks. I'll stop by later if anyone has more questions.
Angela: Thanks so much for being here, Leesie. Everyone here loves you and wants to wish you and Michael a long and happy forever together.
Leesie: Now you're going to make me cry. I'm so emotional these days. Bye!