Wow. What a week this has been.

My husband Ray and I went to Eureka which is a little fishing town on the coast of northern California. I was filling in at the office for someone who took a few days off.

They have some wonderful places to eat in that little town. Our favorite restaurant is The Banana Hut. It is a quaint little Hawaiian place where they put pineapple gravy on everything. I know, pineapple gravy sounds weird, but trust me, it is fabulous. We also watched the sun set over the ocean. It was a very nice trip. However, every nice thing comes to an end at some point.

Our nice trip came to an end Saturday morning. We needed to get back to Redding early because we had so much to do. We had to buy dozens of flowers for the mothers in our church. We also had to buy a $25 gift card for a drawing between all the mothers. The second Sunday of each month we have a potluck at the church so I needed to buy everything for the two dishes I would be taking. Then, of course, I had to prepare the dishes. Besides all of that, I had a book signing at a local book store from 5pm to 8pm. Before I could do any of that, we had to drive 3 1/2 hours to get home.

With a day like that ahead of me, I needed to have everything to go smoothly. Of course, that was not to be. When we tried to leave town our car was dead. When you realize that we have a Prius and the car is mostly batteries, that is really dead. Our car has five giant batteries in it. Each one costs $2,000. We had no idea what this was going to cost us, or how long it would take to get going. Believe me, we were praying. As it turned out, the Prius also has a small battery and that is what was dead. An hour and a half and one jump later, we were on the road.

We did make it to the book signing. That was so much fun. There were two of us there with books to sign. I met a lot of people, many of them are also writers. I am really enjoying getting to know lots of writers. So many of them are very interesting people. I hope they find me interesting also.

Well, we got the flowers, gift card, and went grocery shopping. I grabbed stuff for a bean salad, (it takes about 15 min. to put together) and I got a Marie Callendar's frozen lasagna. I never get frozen food, but I made an exception. Mother's day turned out great, but I am glad it is over.

My website is up and running now. It is www.littlechrisamee.com. You should check it out. I think it turned out so cute. Now I have to get T shirts, book marks, and mouse pads to sell on the website, as well as selling my book.

Check out my book. I think you will like it. Lots of people are buying several of them at a time to give as Christmas gifts.

Well, I will talk to you again soon. By the way, Happy Mother's Day to any of you who are moms.

God bless you.