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Happy Mother’s Day!

Anyone who’s looked at this blog or this webpage even briefly will know that my life as a writer is pretty much inextricably tied up with my life as a mom.  I was pregnant with my daughter when I had the dream that inspired Twilight of Avalon; now I’m 6 months pregnant with my second baby as the book is actually released.  But it’s more than that.  For me, motherhood just cracks my heart open, makes me feel everything, experience every moment of every day a hundred times more intensely than I did before.  And that includes what I feel when I write.  I’m certain that if it weren’t for these amazing little beings in my life I’d never tell the stories I do.

So to celebrate, I wanted to share my two favorite recent mothering moments (one for each child):

The other day the house got very quiet, which as any of you out there with a 2 year old will know is generally a Bad Sign.  But when I found Bella she was sitting in front of my computer happily typing away on my keyboard.  She looked up at me and said, “I’m writing a book just like Mommy does!” She really did say those exact words.  She’s such a cutie.

And I’ve just this week reached the stage where I can see and feel distinct little knees and feet sliding across my stomach and popping through my skin when the baby kicks.  Yep, pregnancy: as unique a blend of the utterly miraculous and mildly creepy as you could ever hope to find.

Happy Mother’s Day to all you wonderful mamas out there!  And especially to my own mom, without whom I would never have written Twilight of Avalon, either.  She really deserves her very own blog post–but I promise you it was no accident that she was the other key player in that long-ago dream that inspired the book!

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