Briefly, before the year ends

You! You, my readers, are too wonderful for words. Even the wacky comments I received on my last post--which were gloriously few and far between--were heartfelt and sweet. I love you all. You, especially. Yes, you, the one reading this. Come here. I shall give you a noogie. An affectionate one.

I have been posting sporadically at best for the past few weeks, and I intend to further try your patience as Eden and I hurtle toward our ever-nearing book deadline. Apparently when you get a book deal, you are then expected to write the book. Yikes. So as you can imagine, my brain has been pretty busy with that whole thing. Which is nice. I mean, for me. Maybe not for you, so much, yet. (Could that sentence be any more awkwardly constructed?) But just you wait.

I am taking a break from Finslippy until the holidays are over, so that I may wrap presents and strew tinsel on things. And stop worrying that I have nothing to write on my blog and my readers are expecting something and they deserve something good because they are so freaking wonderful.

Happy everything, and I will see you in the new year!

Comments

[Fatima]

Right back at ya Alice!

[Megsie]

Happy Everything to you too! Good luck with the book thing, it is THE best excuse for putting your blog on the back burner for a while.

[Sandee]

Miss you already. :(

[Summer]

You love me. You really love me.

I always knew it was true.

[Diane Foden]

God, I love American slang. What the hell's a noogie? Happy Christmas to you and yours.

[Kari]

Hope you have a great Christmas, Look forward to reading more soon:)

[Jamie]

We *love* you too! Enjoy your holidays.

[thebonmama]

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Good luck with the book writing (I'm in the midst of a similar project myself, and understand your pain). I can't wait to read it! :)

[AuntStacy]

Hey, no pressure with writing on your blog. I enjoy your posts, but understand that your probably just living life.

Happy Holidays

[Kristine]

Have an amazing holiday and lots of fun with the tinsel strewing!

Can't wait to see the book on the shelves!

[Dani]

We'll be right here when you get back. Good luck with the book writing and with the strewing of tinsel.
Enjoy the Holidays. Take some time to snuggle up with your only and don't worry about here.

Merry Christmas!

[Judith]

I don't know what the heck a noogie is, what with being German and all, but thanks! Right back at ya!
Enjoy the holidays, and we'll all be here when you come back.

Frohe Weihnachten!

[cartoongoddess]

Happy holidays Alice!

[Kathy Bauer]

I'll miss your posts, Alice. Just don't disappear completely like "Looky Daddy!" did. :( Have a Merry and Happy...see you in 2110 (wasn't it JUST 2000 and the start of the millennium?)

[Pinkie Bling]

Happy Holidays, Alice! The very best to you and yours...see you in 2010!

[Calamity Jill]

Enjoy yourself and your fam. Breathe deep.

[Lindsay M]

Oh, authors and their work!

Good luck on the book and the holidays.

Bee Tee Dub, I wanted to let you know that I found "The Sun" because of you and thoroughly enjoyed it. Gracias.

[Beth M.]

We love you, too! :)

[Sarah]

Alice,

I just watched the "Flippin' Tired" momversation and I could not stop laughing at your segments. The toast situation seriously brought me to tears. I even had to rewind it to watch it again. I have a 10-month-old daughter (my first) and that just totally brought back those first few months of utter exhaustion. Thanks for the laugh. I have just bookmarked finslippy. Oh, and I also saw your piece in Redbook! Well done!

Sarah

[PB Rippey/sleepless mama]

The noogie hurt a little, but that's just simply all right. Happy writing and GOOD LUCK with the book. Will look forward to posts in 2010.

[mp]

Now, don't you feel better? Go breathe a sigh of relief that we all took that so well, because frankly we love you to pieces too! Did you breathe? Good.
Now, on to the tinsel!

[Elsa]

Alice, I kept coming back to your previous entry, and re-reading it, and writing comments...

... and deleting them, because there is nothing I can say. Every time I read it, I found myself holding my breath, waiting for the feelings to come washing over me. Different feelings every time. Sorrow for your pain, sorrow for my (different) pain, sorrow for the (different again) pain of dear friends.

And happiness, too, for all of us for finding the joy that we have present in our lives.

Aaaaand here I am, holding my breath again as I type, waiting for the onslaught.

Happy holidays, happy blog-break, and thank you.

[astridmaria]

dear lovely alice,

my goodness how we love you too!!

thank you for all your wonderful posts this year, am really looking forward to 2010 and more inspired blogging:D

merry christmas and a happy new year!

love,
astrid

[DM]

I adore you just because you use words like strew tinsel. It makes me giggle for some odd reason.

[themeansister]

Love you, finslippy! Happy holidays to you and yours!

[rlj]

Happy Christmas! See you next year :)

[Springsteen fan]

Alice, congrats on the Redbook gig. Now I GOTTA subscribe. You tell 'em I said so!!!! Have a great 2010.

[jts]

WaaaaaHHHH!!! Come back! I miss you! I mean, I just want to say, I need you I read you, I can't live without you....

..and since you've been away, i've become a whine-o.

Seriously. I love you Alice. Many blessings to you and your only-enoughs.

[Beth in SF]

Happy new year Alice! Thanks for the noogie, I needed that :)

[Amy]

Happy Christmas :) Long time reader, first time commenter here (Ha! always wanted to say that).. and I just wanted to say: thanks for your frank and honest (and funny! so very funny) outlooks. I personally connected with you (like so many other women) through the story of your miscarriage. Your words may as well have been my words. Thank you for saying things that I have only been able to feel.
Can't wait to see what 2010 has in store for you!

[maggie may]

Merry and Merry, and thank you for your writing.

[Kate @ And Then I Was a Mom]

Happiest of holidays. And may the tinsel you strew never need vacuuming. (If you do find such self-vanishing tinsel, please write.)

[mom-101]

Enjoy your time off, lady. It's very well-deserved.

(Although of course you'll be needing to prove just how productive you've been with your time off come January. The first 400 pages or so of your manuscript will do.)

[Laura]

And to you and yours! I do appreciate you sharing your thoughts and words out here in the Internets.
Best,
L

[mynext50.blogspot.com]

I have been so busy with rebuilding my business/life, I have been tardy checking in wit finslippy, and now I have to wait...timing is everything. mynext50.blogspot.com

[Mauigirl]

Just want to wish you, Scott and Henry a wonderful holiday and hope you have a great 2010 with much success for the book!!

[JustLinda]

Happy New Year!

I find myself with a few weeks off here at the end of 2009 and decided to go visiting my old bloggy haunts. Thinking of taking it up again myself, the blogging thing. So I dusted off my Google Reader and stopped by to say Happy New Year. When you write, I'll be here to read. It's always satisfying, like a hot cup of coffee on a cold morning.

Be well!

[amy]

Enjoy your holidays!! Hope you had a great Christmas, enjoy a wonderful New Year's and get your book done! *hugs*

[Bonnie]

Holidays officially over tomorrow, new post coming?

[arthurineh]

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