13 Things I Nearly Named the Kids

The Boy

1. Seamus
2. Maximilian
3. Gideon
4. Elijah
5. Finn
6. Hamish

The Girl

7. Lucy
8. Gillian
9. Greer
10. Audrey
11. Avalon
12. Ava
13. Ivy

Happy TT.

Mwah! Amber

13 Things I've Found In My Washer or Dryer in the Last Month

Here is a list of bizarre things I found in my washer or dryer, sometimes both actually, in the last month. Some of them definitely qualifying as worse than others.


1. Blue crayon. Ouch. So much for those clothes.

2. Ramen. It's not really all that good to eat and its definitely not so good for your laundry.

3. Something tan and spongy. No idea what it was but there was a lot of it. It kind of looked like mutated cheerios but I definitely didn't feel like cheerios.

4. A credit card. Ooops.

5. Thirteen cents. At different times.

6. A fingernail clipper.

7. A dryer sheet in the washer.

8. Three dollars in one dollar bills. At different times.

9. In invit to a party we already missed. Oops.

10. Someone else's coat. Still don't know whose.

11. Shoes. That one was actually on purpose.

12. My cat. Don't worry he didn't go through a cycle or anything. Just climbed inside.

13. A screw.

In my own defense I don't always load the laundry, LOL. :)

Amber

And now for the introductions

Hello everyone. My name is, obviously, Amber. I live in Albuquerque, NM which isn't all that great but could definitely be worse. I'm Mormon, something in the news a lot lately. Because Heaven forbid that a reporter should write an article about Mitt Romney without including the word Mormon. Their press credentials would be taken away.

I have a wonderful husband of just about eight years. We were married in the Albuquerque Temple shortly after it was dedicated. We have two children and we would dearly love to have more but that's one of those things we didn't get to decide. But we all have to have our trials I guess and it could definitely be worse.

Our boy is seven (In a week) and is in first grade. He has Asperger's Syndrome. A form of high functioning autism. He speaks and interacts but not always in a way that makes sense. He's a little genius who has an obsession with Egypt and pirates (and video games and legos but those don't sound as cool.)

Our girl is four (In about two weeks) and hasn't started school yet. She got a recessive girly gene from somewhere and is constantly awash in an ocean of pink. She loves to sing, watch Little Einsteins and color. She also loves to dress herself but has a somewhat curious sense of style and probably shouldn't be allowed to dress herself. But I let her do it anyway.

I am a writer. I write series mysteries under the name Amber Gilchrist and Mormon fiction under the name Amber Gilchrist Anderson. (I went wild and crazy with that last name.) I'm not published yet, in fiction, but I will be. Oh, yes. I will be.

I just finished my first Mormon romantic comedy (the other I wrote is far more serious) called Glitch, A Comedy of Errors and once it has had edits I will be sending it oh its way to try and find a new home with a publisher.

Welcome to my blog home and feel free to kick back and relax. Put your feet up and have a cup of cocoa. :)

Amber