Two Very Different Giveaways

On this day last year, The Familiar Stranger released! In honor of this momentous--as in lasts only a moment--day in history, I'm giving away an autographed copy to one of the new subscribers to my infrequent, humorous newsletter! Sign up at my website before my birthday, 9/30. If you happen to
already be signed up, resubscribe and I'll still enter you. Pass it on!

I did a different giveaway yesterday. In the midst of a doctor appointment, blood draw, pharmacy run, and cat scan for Josh, I gave our little two-year-old foster son back. What a sweet pie he was to have. My nickname for him was Smoochy Pants. I'm so proud of the hard work his birth mother did to get him back and pray the best for them. But there's no ignoring the fact that school for the kids and subbing for me, plus the ACFW conference, editing jobs, and general life were going to be a whole lot harder with a foster child. Andrea helped me make a DVD of all the pictures we'd taken of him in the last 4 1/2 months set to music by Chris & Conrad. One lyric in particular hit me hard: "You came to my rescue so I can make it home." His mom already called and told me it was awesome.


Thank you, Lord, for our time with little "Tyler." We pray a protective hedge around him and his family. Continue to draw them close to You!