Happy New Year!

After a month-long hiatus in which everyone in our family managed to get sick, some more than once, and we ran around to various church and family gatherings, I’m back to blogging!

NaNoWriMo was strenuous this year since it was jammed in there with all the other travel and school and jobs and holidays and my brain was fried when it was over. I did keep up with my personal journal but that was about it. Any other writing felt like too much.

Now it’s 2017! A new year! A time for setting new goals and achieving new achievements! For writing new things!

I’ve never been one much for making New Years Resolutions. They set me up for failure before I ever start. Each year, I set goals for myself for the coming year. Last year, one of my goals was to submit two of my books to publishers and see what happened. The rest is history. What happened with the first book, you might ask? I had some publishers show interest in it, but haven’t heard back from them about it. With all that has been going on in my life, I haven’t had time to follow up.

(Yes, my book will still be published. Patience, dear reader. I have to wait for my turn in the queue!) 

Over the next few days, I’m hoping to share about some of my goals for this year.

In the meantime, we are spending our time here in the US trying to stay warm. Thankfully, the winter hasn’t been that severe. Last furlough, we got a big snowstorm every week in December and January. So far this time, aside from a slight dusting that melted off the next day, we haven’t gotten any. Some days, all I want to do is hunker down under the warm blankets and not come out.

I think of the hot dry season that they are heading into in Uganda. I remember that they won’t even have any cool days for another couple of months. It’s hard not to be homesick.

Tonight it’s supposed to start snowing and we should have a couple inches by tomorrow. That doesn’t bother me as much as the bitter cold that will follow it the next morning!

So, dear reader, stay warm! Set goals! Enjoy this new year! In the immortal words of Anne Shirley…