NaNoWriMo

November is National Novel Writing Month! Steve and his brother, Adam, are participating along with many others around the nation.

The goal is to write a 50,000 word novel in a month. That's a lot of writing. So far, the people participating have written over 591 million words this month. Wow. I'm not one of those people. But more power to all those who are taking the challenge.

To get in the spirit of NaNoWriMo, we threw a kick-off party this weekend. Well, I guess it wasn't a kick-off party, since they already started, but more of a momentum party. And a party with only three people. But we had a blast! Steve and Adam both did a reading of their work so far (and I must say that the writing seems like it is going well). We had dump cake (in honor of dumping the words out onto paper this month), we played Bananagrams (a fun word game), and we played a poetry-writing game where we finished each-others' poems by only reading the last line written.

Very fun indeed. And if any of you out there are participating in NaNoWriMo, good luck!

Fall Fun!

This fall has been fun. We did get some warmer weather post-snow, so I'm happy about that. We have lots of beautiful trees in our yard, so we've done a lot of raking. In fact, we still have some raking left to do before the season is over. Steve decided to cut down two trees in our backyard and did a splendid job. I'm still unsure if he wanted to cut them down more because 1) they were growing funny and are rather unneccessary to our yard, 2) he got to use a chainsaw, or 3) he could, because he is the homeowner.

We bought some pumpkins from the last local farmer's market of the year and we toasted pumpkin seeds and carved pumpkins. We went to a few different Halloween and Fall parties and Nash went trick-or-treating with other kids in our neighborhood. Needless to say, he is a fan. This is Nash's first time to seem to understand what "holiday" means, so I'm getting more excited for Thanksgiving and Christmas with him.