Tuesday Toot!

The Tuesday Toot is a new thing I'm doing with through my affiliation with Blogamama. Toots are done weekly to celebrate the accomplishments of moms because moms are a modest group and won't admit to being able to do much of anything other than breathing and eating. We all do some bragging on our kids and lots of us do some bragging on our husbands, but if someone says, "Boy, your chocolate chip cookies are the best I've ever had," we tend to say things like, "Ohhh, no. Really. They taste like my dog baked them." Or if someone says, "That presentation was absolutely brilliant - you had them eating out of your hand," mommies respond, "That presentation? You've got to be joking. If you want to see a great presentation, you should take a look at the dinosaur diorama my third grader just turned in. Now that was a brilliant presentation."

So on Tuesdays, I'll be tooting with a bunch of other moms -- to read their toots, just click on the little graphic up there and enjoy. I spent some time reading at other mom blogs today and some are funny and some are inspiring and all are interesting. Moms can do the coolest things!

Here's my toot for Tuesday, July 22:

I wrote a small book about William Shakespeare's life and Catholic roots, with a little info about Elizabethan history and theater thrown in for makeweight. It's not very long, seeing as how it was meant to be an overview for middle school/high school students. As it is, it's pretty much non-publishable because there's not much of a market for a book like that, unless I publish it myself. Which, I don't know about that. But I love it. It's my very own literary baby and I'm proud of it.