Katie Teller's Stories: Progress Report

Katie Teller's Stories: Progress Report: So, tomorrow marks the last day of the Kiya: Hope of the Pharaoh blog tour. I must say this month has been absolutely nuts. It's been a ...

Peanut Butter Chocolate Chip Cookies

For the ladies at work: Enjoy!

1 cup Peanut Butter (smooth usually works better)
3/4 cup Butter
3/4 cup Sugar
3/4 cup Brown Sugar
1/2 tsp Vanilla Extract

Blend all these together (I use an electric mixer because it's faster) until smooth then add...

2 eggs

Blend. Then add...

1 tsp Baking Soda
2 cups Flour

Slowly add the flour while mixing. Once mixed, add in

1 cup Chocolate chips, or more if you want!

then bake at 375 for 9 minutes.

Looking up

So after seven months of unemployment, Landon finally got a job! YAY! and it's a good one too which will fit in perfectly with his schooling. He's doing work at Home Depot, and it's right up his alley, although I won't describe it because I won't do it justice. We'll just say he got a job at Home Depot Hurray!

Also, we have fixed up Lilly's room so it is "Lilly's" room now. We painted it pink, got the bookshelves out, got her a bed and just generally made it really cute. Once it's done I'll post photos. The best part? We did it all for almost free. Landon's BFF got him paint super cheap, and everything else we already had or traded etc. Awesome :-D

Checking in!

Welcome to the New Year! I hope yours is as promising as mine! I think back ont 2012 and I realized something: I'm making my dreams come true! I have a wonderful husband, a beautiful daughter, a nice home, lovely dog and most importantly my big dream of becoming an author is on its way to fulfullment! Seriously, a few years ago I felt like I was going nowhere fast and feltlike all my hopes and ambitions I had as a teen were what everyone told me would happen. DEAD. But, whether I was in denial or I'm just so stinking stubborn, I was determined to not give up. I didn't want to settle for a mediocre existance of day in and day out routine. So, I studied and read up on style and skills and everything else and  I got editorals and I did research on how to get published and I did everything I could to be published. And guess what? I got it! But a career as an author isn't permenant so I have to keep working at it and promoting and enhancing my skill.
So I say to you: Dreams are only dreams and they won't become more than that unless you decided to make it reality. With some hard work they can become reality. Nothing is out of reach unless you give up. There's a quote I remember as a YSA which said something like, you think: who am I to be great and wonderful? The question is, who are you not to be? We all have something burning inside us just desperate to come out. A gift, a thought, a desire. So never settle, always reach for your true potential because who are you not to be who you were made to be?