MY BOOK IS DONE

It is so good to finally have my book done and in the production stage.. the process is still going to be about 2 months before it will be here for sale but I have to be patient.. as I told my Husband it is like giving birth in a way  the time it was in utero was 6 years though..LOL and I am still 2 months away from holding it in my hands, I have seen the ultrasound though and am happy with what is coming.. hope that everyone realizes how much this book means. to me and my family is is written and illustrated totally from the heart. after doing rough sketches , then watercolors, and then arcrylic canvas, finally the world of digital has inspired me to draw the final project,I had to ad more pages from the original and change the original concept from the first year of a childs life to when they were young.

Well things have progressed well and I now have the book registered with my ISBN number and am so excited to be on the final stages of this long journey..this book has so much meaning to me and those whom I have written it for.
Life has away of throwing us cure balls and it is what we decide to do with them that counts, many of us have had loss in our lives some it is expected as the Loved one has been ill for awhile or they are elderly. Then there are the accidental deaths that take us to our inner feeling of why, or what could I have done to prevent this. we have no way of knowing weather we have tomorrow.
  I married my husband of now 12 years after he had lost his first wife to Cancer she fought a long battle for 3 years.. I never met Sandy but I am now the surrogate Nana for her Grandchildren.
 A Grandmother they will never know ,other than through the stories their Mom tells them of her.
Then 8 years ago my brother died suddenly in a accidental death, he left behind a wife and 3 daughters, one whom was getting married later that year. He was gone to early and he missed this event in his daughters life, but it was not until 2 years later that his first grandchild came into this world.
 A very loved little girl Surai, the night she was born I thought of all the things that my brother would have been missing .  All the things that he would have done if he would have been here to see her grow.
Then came along two little boys a year and half later.. twins non the less we always wondered what it would have been like to have two of Jeff when he was growing up, well now we do. The twins look so much like him, one more so than the other. Well this book is written in Jeff and Sandy's memory of all they may have done if they would have been here, also in memory of my sister Laura Lee whom I never knew as she died before I was born , I always wonder what my life would have been like to have had a sister, to play with to hang out with.
I had to revise the book a little from my first draft as I realized there were many people that I have met whom have lost someone special in their lives and having to comfort their children to deal with these losses, or even if someone is just not there, they may be in the military, a father who has to work overseas or have given their child up for adoption or foster care. they may want to be there but just can't be for one reason or another.. this book is for one and all. I hope that you enjoy it and the little ones you read it to find some comfort in the story