Okay but my overachiever brain definitely sees this as a bad thing. I worked on it for a whole year and I only have this little show for it? No thank you~ 😂

Happy birthday!

Between being in the spotlight all day (😐), the money, and the inevitable drama with some of my family members, I just didn’t see the point. We did studio photos and called it a day lol.

I got my daughter the same one. Today’s (4) made me so happy. Such a cute little story already.

For my son I got the Jedi one and so far I’m not seeing the pattern yet.

Thank you. I’m extremely lucky to have family in the Netherlands who can help us out with stuff on their end, so it definitely could have been worse.

It’s been a lot of Getting Shit Done really fast over the past couple of days, and I expect that will continue for a while, at least until the end of February I guess? So the writing project is definitely on an “only if I have spoons” hiatus 🫣

We were planning a move to the Netherlands in the summer of 2025 before that, but with the house stuff we’ve had to move it up to the end of next month. 😬

Basically the owner of the house we’re renting stopped paying her loans and the bank seized our house. It got sold to new owners who want us out because this area has been insanely in demand lately and they want to sell it on before the craze dies down. (The house isn’t actually that nice.)

I was in fact taking a nap with my children at 4:15pm yesterday 😂

Yes, 25

Oohhh we can try? 😂

Thematically: emotional abuse, low self esteem, being forced into a job, and female friendship.

Plot: a country at war recruits a former child soldier into spying and assassination.

Setting: fantasy world with elemental magic. (MC is shapeshifter/shadow wielder)