Monday, September 9, 2013

When You Have A Son

When you have a son, this is what you can wake up to in the morning.

 Why, yes, that is Shelob climbing down my Grandfather clock.


Doesn't everyone want to greet the morning with a cave troll?


No bookcase is complete without a warg chewing on an orc's leg.


I believe my house was decorated with 35 LOTR figures. And it's not even close to the Hobbit 2 release.


N.B. Tomorrow, on my Screwing Up Time blog, I'll be doing a cover reveal for the short story, "Screwing Up Mongolia."

10 comments:

  1. Ha, I remember decorating the house with LEGOs as a teenager. Quite often elaborate battle scenes were staged and then left up as decoration. High art at its finest!

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  2. I love that your kids are LOTR crazy. Wish mine were!

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  3. I have sons, but they've always been more into sports than other stuff. So I'm always tripping over basketball bags and picking up dirty socks laying around the living room.

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  4. Patti, I hate the dirty socks!! And they're always crumpled into sweaty balls. Yuck! My guys fence, so I tend to find foils lying around the house.

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  5. Lydia,
    I actually feel kind of bad about the LOTR thing--I read aloud the entire book to my kids when they were young. One (my LOTR interior decorator)was still in a high chair. I cringe when I think about it. But, they got hot chocolate and cookies when I read, so that's how I justified it to myself. :)

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  6. Hey, don't feel too bad about reading LOTR to your kids when they were young. When our younger son was a baby, I used to read the newspaper out loud to him. He enjoyed hearing the sound of my voice, and doggone it, I wanted to read the paper! (Now he's almost as much of a news junkie as I am.)

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  7. My cousin and I once used string to create a giant spider web.

    It covered the entire living room, which sucked for the adults, because it also covered the front door. ^_^

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  8. Misha, How cool! I hope someone took a photo.

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