Yes, I’m back and my writing brain has returned. Amazing what shedding some 30 pounds of fluid and baby can do to a person.
The bump, aka James, landed on Friday June 26th at 1:29 p.m., weighing 10.5lbs and 21.5 inches long. Yes, my smallest child. Boo being 10.9 lbs and Sumo being 11.5lbs. After all the high risk, and talk of him coming early he stuck it out until the planned section date. Our surgery was bumped by an hour because everyone in the city seemed to go into labor because of a freak heat wave. Surgery this time went good, except my DH fainted while they were putting my IV in. Which scared me because the room they were prepping me in was so small and he’s very tall and fell into a dresser. He’s okay, it was just his pride was stung after the nurses got him into a wheel chair and fed him gingerale and a sandwhich. My OB still states males are the inferior sex. She got in a lot of good ribbing. LOL!
I had a rough go, lost a lot of blood and ended up spending an extra day in the hospital. Also means no more bumps for me, but that’s fine. James swallowed a little too much fluid on his way out, so he’s in the hospital until next Monday. They have him on antibiotics as a preventitive measure since they removed all the fluid from his lungs. But he’s a champ. I thought on Saturday he was going to go the same way as Sumo and spend his first month in the PCCU. Nope, nothing wrong with his heart and once the fluid came out he let me know his lungs are strong.
So I’m managing fine, sore and on painkillers but doing good. Thankfully the hospital is 5 mins away so I can see him everyday until I can bring him home. My first night home, after the other two were in bed, was spent reading contest entries and writing. It’s good to have my focus back.
I’ve missed you all, and I’ll be playing catch up for a week, but I’m back to my old self again and it feels great.
Sorry for not posting more often, nor getting around as much as I did before. I’m trying, LOL, but I can basically only sit in one chair, my rocking chair and it’s incredibly impossible to balance the computer on my lap.
Once I get the bump out I’ll be back. There’s been a lot going on in my little world and to do with my series so I’ll let you know what’s going on after the baby comes. It’s been pretty stressful to say the least.
Is now available. It came out yesterday, but I’m just getting back online. I fell and sprained my ankle quite badly and have been laid up for a couple of days. I’m hobbling a long, but with the weight of the baby it makes things … difficult to say the least.
This is the second book in my Enchantress series. This is Alfwyn’s story. And I hope I did him justice. He’s a bit of a rogue. Tomorrow, on J.K. Coi’s blog, you can read an interview with his lady Morag.
He saved her life. Little did he know, demons were part of the bargain…
Enchantress, Book 2
It takes his father’s near death to make Alfwyn realize he has done nothing in his life. As the youngest in his family, he has much farther to reach to prove himself great. Maybe too far.
As he accompanies his brother’s pregnant wife to Wales, his chance arrives. He rescues a maiden clinging for her life to a rock as the tide rolls in. An enchanting, mysterious woman, none like he has ever seen.
Desperation to avoid forced marriage to a powerful, demonic Warlord drove Morag to fake her death and have her “body” put to sea. The magic potion that set her free sends her to the safety of Alfwyn’s arms. “Safe” is an illusion for a Scottish witch in hiding. Just as she is on the brink of falling in love with the melancholy, passionate man, word reaches the Warlord that she still lives.
Alfwyn’s sword arm may be strong enough to ward off a legion of possessed warriors from hell. Only an extraordinary man has the courage to reach for heaven…in a sorceress’s arms.
Product Warnings
This title contains Scottish demons, sorcery, betting on who can hold out longer, and a forced marriage.
I don’t get Showtime, and I know that Season 3 of The Tudors has started, but I have to wait until it arrives in Canada. BOO!!
I can’t wait to watch this season. I’m writing a short based in the time when Anne of Cleves is about to get the boot. I’m working on the synopsis now.
So I’m rewatching Season 1 and 2 now to immerse myself in the period, and I just freaking love JRM as King Henry VIII. I can see in Season 1 the moment he goes “crazy” as it were. He’s drive, his need to have a son. Of course at the end of Season 2, after Anne loses her head and he’s eating that crazy stuffed swan there’s a moment of insanity again. It’s in his eyes, brilliant acting.
Where has this year gone? Seriously. Even though I am so tired of being liken to a beached whale, I still can’t believe how fast this year has gone.
In 29 days I will be holding my third and FINAL child. Very surreal. Right now as I sit here typing (I’m doing edits) my belly is very lopsided as I get mooned from the inside out. He’s squirming and kicks every once and awhile, but is slowly running out of room. I’m ruminating about the birth today more because one of my best friends (non writer LOL!) is going to start the induction process today. It’s her first. She’ll have her little one by the weekend. Our guys will be less than a month apart, but going from both our original due dates (Her being very overdue and me delivering early) our bubs should have been more than a month apart.
Sumo has been acting clingy, and that’s natural. I’ve been trying to do special things with him, lately all we’ve been doing is having afternoon naps together but I think he likes it. Boo is excited that school is almost over and soon she’ll be a big sister again. She loves helping me fold baby clothes and I tell her she’s my biggest helper. The only thing she won’t do, which she keeps informing me about, is changing the baby’s bum. She’s not having anything to do with that. LOL!
As for writing that’s going well. Slow but well. I’m finishing up a couple of shorts this week. Plotting out another short for Ellora’s Cave, but first edits on The Healer. (If Lisa’s reading this I swear today you’ll get them LOL!!).
Are you ready for June? Has the year been dragging for you or has it flown by as well?
I got another great review for Enchantress The Fey! I’m so pleased it’s going over so well. It was my first ever completed book. So it means a lot to me … either that or I’m just overly hormonal. LOL!!
Here’s the review from ParaNormalRomance.
ENCHANTRESS: THE FEY is a wonderful paranormal medieval romance. Amy Ruttan did a fantastic job of pulling me into the story from the very first page and kept my interest throughout. And yes, we do have the good versus evil in this story, but in a way that took me by surprise. Aislinn is a woman that won’t easily submit to any man, much less a husband. And of course, Edwin is strong enough to handle her. All in all, this is a very engaging story and one I suggest reading, especially if you have an interest in anything Celtic.
It feels triple time for me. I’m dying. Sleep is not coming, now I get up at 4 a.m., usually because A) My hips hurt and I can’t lay down B) I have to go to the “loo” as it were and C) I’m sweating buckets and need a cold shower.
Environment Canada is warning us of a HOT, HOT, HOT summer. Like in the 30’s (sorry that’s Canadian temps for my yankee friends) in mid June. Just when I thought I was outwitting the fates by having this guy in June before the heat of the summer we get an unusual hot summer. Grrrr.
Sorry, I’m just grumpy cause I’m not sleeping and I can no longer see my feet nor think coherently. Well, at least I have been working on my writing. Plotting and getting some things ready, finishing my series. So there is some advantage to no sleep.
What are some of the ways you cool down on a hot night?
It’s good to have my focus back.
