Karen Kingsbury News

So as many of you know I am a bit of a book dork, although I don't get a chance to read as much as I did before Sammy. My all time fav author is Karen Kingsbury. Here is an update on some of her new books for those who love her like I do:

More Baxters? Karen’s Big News!

Since the release of Sunset – the last book about the Baxter family – I’ve been deluged by letters asking me whether I’d ever write about these characters again, and whether I would at least consider writing more about Bailey Flanigan and Cody Coleman. I’ve kept you in suspense long enough. My brand new blockbuster series begins March 9 with Above the Line - Take One. And yes, it is set in Bloomington, Indiana. This series is about two producers who want to change the world with the power of film, but who must be careful not to lose themselves in the process. One of the producers has a daughter – Andi Ellison – who rooms with Bailey Flanigan on the campus of Indiana University. Bailey, Cody, Tim Reed, and Andi will be a major part of this new series. And the Baxters? I can promise you they are in scenes throughout the first book. Andi’s parents live in LA, so the Baxters will serve as her “second family”. In book one, there is even a tender dinner scene with the producers and everyone in the Baxter family gathered at the old Baxter house. So yes, the Baxters serve as background characters in this series, but for those of us who know and love them they will live on at least through the next four books.

Every Now and Then Releases

Because I feel so strongly about the importance of Veteran’s Day, today marks the release for the third and final book in my 9-11 series. Every Now and Then brings back our favorite characters from One Tuesday Morning and Beyond Tuesday Morning, but it features a new character – Alex Brady, a young K9 police officer whose father was killed in the 9/11 collapse of the Twin Towers. Alex is driven to rid Los Angeles of the heartache caused by crime, but first he must learn to deal with his own.

LOVE IT!!!!

Our Big Boy

Sammy truly is growing so much each day. I look at the picture that flash on the computer screen and can hardly remember the days when I though he would be crawling down the aisle for his wedding because he'd never walk- boy was I wrong. Last night as I was giving him a bath he look at me and started counting 1..2..3..um...4! He is also getting his own little preference. He only likes to dry his hands on the blue towel and he doesn't want apple juice much only good juice (naked orange juice). I think we might start itching him some more sign language. When he was a baby we taught him the basic milk, more, cracker, but lately when he talks he has been trying to move his finger to correspond to his words. I am not sure if it's because we have a friend who is deaf and we have seen them quite a few times in the past month or so, or if he is just remembering it from his baby days. I am very excited about it, I am hoping that Steve and I can learn a bit also to really encourage Sammy to keep up with it.

One more thing while I'm on the subject of Sammy getting so independent. We always crack up and I have to say dread a bit when we pick Sammy up from Sunday school. This morning was definitely not an exception. Everyone at our church has such a deep love for us and Sammy, it's just great, and even more great that they can just crack up when today he moved a jacket and diaper bag off a chair that was right next to the snack shelf, climbed up, grab the giganto container of cookies, brought them down onto the chair, UNSCREWED the lid and chowed down! I was just mortified when they told me. My boy loves to eat what can I say? They also had said that he refused to drink out of his sippy cup and wanted a big boy cup. He did very well and only spilled once which he got paper towels for and cleaned all by himself. So BIG!

It snowed a bit this am and there was still a little on the deck when we got home. Sammy and Amos were playing and Sammy feel and wanted to come inside. He kept saying he was so coldie coldie so I gave him a cup of hot chocolate in a mug. He just loved it. He looked up at me and said umm good coffee mom! A boy after my own heart.