Growl, I owe you one, Monday.

Here is how our morning has played out thus far.

ME: Good morning Monday, you beautiful, albeit chilly, day you!

MONDAY: Slap, kick, punch, whirlybird, spit

ME: *sob, whimper, sob*

I hope yours is faring better! It is back to school and back to work here and of course, everything is falling apart! Well, not everything. We have our health (mostly), our sanity (somewhat), and our wallets (but we don't know where they are).

There's a few new days posted about over on the Drill Sergeant tab and another installment of The Bank Robber's Lament is coming soon!

I have two new releases this month that are already out:

CHUNKY SUGARS, my children's book -- beautifully illustrated by Joshua Stolte -- which released on New Year's day! Written for Sun 3 and dedicated to chunky babies everywhere! Find out what happens when Mommy gets all of her little baby's sugars!! (The age old Mom-inspired question!)

A HEART BROKEN - in ebook format. Releases in print on the 22nd of January. In this book, the second of the Everlasting Heart series, Charlotte is forced to find out how much grief can a heart bear before being tested to the ultimate limit.

The War is over, Sanderson is home, and life is good … until the Army comes knocking. They have charged Sanderson with the murder and is sentenced to “hang by the neck until dead” – unless he can track down and kill the notorious outlaw William Quantrill with the help of SGT Jerry Thomas, who still may be in love with Charlotte. While Sanderson is on his blood mission, Charlotte is left to endure a complicated pregnancy with the help of Minerva and battle a rash of hydrophobia that threatens the countryside, Cotton, Achilles, and Sanderson.