Good Morning All!

My weekend started off by getting a call from my pastor Friday evening. It's not often that he calls me at home since I see him every Sunday and we're neighbors.  After exchanging the usual pleasantries, Pastor drops the bomb, "I read your new book." Uh-oh 

Not only has this man been my pastor just about my entire life, he's also my spiritual father. So, you can imagine his feedback, whether negative or positive, is going to weigh heavy on me. After a few seconds I say to him, "Okay, what did you think?"

He chuckles, which leads me to chuckle. You see, Pastor and I did this same little dance with my first romance novel. We spent the next ten to fifteen minutes discussing characters and different scenes. The conversation ended with him telling me he was proud of me, enjoyed my story, could see where I grew as an author and how my writing became a little bolder. Of course I knew he was referring to the lovemaking scenes. LOL

Saturday morning was dreary, freezing cold and raining cats and dogs as I drove to my monthly Valley Forge Romance Writers meeting. Though the weather was messy I was glad I went out. One of the authors presented a workshop on how to  do research for writing paranormal romance. Although I don't plan to write a paranormal romance, if I ever decide to do so, I have lots of resources to do the research .

Resurrection morning, my family and I celebrated with our church family the awesome power of God's love and mercy. (I Corinthians 15:3-4 Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures, and He was buried, and that he rose again the third day.) Later that afternoon, siblings, aunts, uncles, nieces, nephews,  grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and in-laws,  gathered at my parents' home for Easter dinner.  Holiday dinners are always filled with the loud, joyful chatter of children ripping and running through the house playing while  the older adults laugh sharing stories of their younger days. Even though we've all heard  these stories a million times growing up,  we sit hanging onto every word. After dinner my immediate family and I headed over to Esther's to see baby Levi-Jacob. He was so cute in his little outfit with bunny ears and a fuzzy tail!  Esther and I behaved. We didn't hold any impromptu concerts! LOL

Come on, don't be shy. How did you spend your weekend?