Anna M. Aquino

Yesterday, my oldest daughter and I waited for too long in the Staples parking lot for our computer to be ready.   (To rewind a bit, our family computer caught a nasty bug and we finally opted to take it into Staples where it’s been immunized, vaccinated and everything that can be done to it.   We were told by the staff it would be done by Monday.   So I went in Monday to be told I wouldn’t be getting it yet.   I was told Tuesday morning, and then was called Tuesday morning to be told it would be ready at 5:30 that night.   So we went in Tuesday evening to wait because it still wasn’t done.   If I haven’t mentioned in a blog the customer service in Central Florida is sorely lacking, so anyway my oldest daughter and I were waiting in the parking lot in the car for about 45 minutes waiting for the computer to be done.)   As I was waiting I happen to glance about two rows over.   There was a red pickup truck pulling into a parking space. ...

I am in my last few days of writing the rough draft of my 19 th book.   That seems unbelievable to me.   Though I’ll finish the 19 th in a couple of days, I’ll spend a few work days on a reread and then flushing it out.   Without much pause, I usually take some time between projects; I’ll go straight into #20.   #19 is part 2 and #20 is the last installment of a trilogy I’ve been working on.   Indecently the 1 st book in this series was the one an agent just read, fell in love with and had to turn down due to it being outside of the box her agency tends to market.   (Sigh, one of these days my fiction books will find a good home, but all is well . . . it’s a business, I get it!) This trilogy is Christian Fiction Fantasy.   It has required me to do a lot of research in Biblical times; more specifically King David’s family.   As a result I was reading up on anything I could get my hands on regarding this, and plural marriage.   King D...

  Last week my youngest daughter had her artwork chosen to represent her school at our local library.   We were all excited and went to the opening of the art exhibit.   We happily took a couple of pictures, saw her work, said a round of “hello’s” and came home.   The next morning when I dropped the kids off at school, the art teacher practically ran me down.   Given the problems we’ve had recently at my children’s school, I thought Really?   What now?   Evidently the art show had been independently juried, and my daughter won 1 st place in her division.   Evidently they’d had an awards ceremony that we hadn’t known about and unfortunately missed.   Had we have known all of this we’d have happily stayed for the awards, but we hadn’t known.   My daughter was so excited to have won, but we all felt bad we missed the ceremony.   Though there were several things roaming in my mind, when the art teacher chased me down, I aut...

              I want to thank all of you who have prayed or emailed me with some great evolution/creation information over the last few days.               We did go yesterday to have the 2 nd meeting at my daughters’ school regarding how evolution has been taught.   While I hear their point that my big aggravation is with the State of Florida who approved teaching the ‘Theory of Evolution’ in 2008 and they are who my issue is with, the meeting did not go well at all.   (I want to state again: my children learning about the THEORY of Evolution is not what makes me mad.   It’s them and classes of children being taught it as fact that does, and my daughter has felt bullied by this teacher)   While the school has conducted its own private investigation, this teacher took it upon himself to call me a ‘bullying bad parent’ in front of my c...

              For those of you who follow my blogs, you know we’ve had some ongoing arguments with my oldest daughter’s science teacher.   I understand that faith and science don’t always agree.   I understand that the whole Creation Vs Evolution has been an argument in public schools for years.    I understand that currently my child goes to a secular school, and thus is subject to what the state standards say.   Believe it or not I am not a person that tries to start arguments, but in this case I feel the situation got thrown in my lap.             The first time I blogged about this I was legitimately mad because I felt the Science Teacher was telling me that my daughter was not allowed to view her opinion.   That felt to me like a violation of the Freedom of Speech, and no matter if I agree with a person’s opinion or not, I thin...

              I guess I need to call this the week where I randomly confess areas in my life that I need to work on.   Because today I have another confession, I have a big mouth.   I mean I probably say things and repeat them way more than I should.   My family and I are in the midst of a very difficult time of transition, and privately I’ve shared much of what God is doing to too many people.   Perhaps I’m just excited, perhaps I’m so ready for things to happen, perhaps I just don’t know when to zip it, lock it, and put it in my pocket.               My husband has been reading Pastor Gary Keesee’s book, “Kingdom Thoughts Your Roadmap to a Successful Tomorrow”.   I plan on reading it as soon as Dan is done, but in it one thing Pastor Gary talks about is the reason why often times God doesn’t tell us everything that’s getting ready to t...

              Earlier last week my oldest daughter had to write a short paper in class regarding which was more important to the students; was it having integrity or having the approval of their peers. This resulted in a good conversation with my daughter and me.   The obvious choice was that integrity is more important because one day we’ll all have to stand before God and give an account for our own lives.   What is more important is what we stood for, not who approved of us.   I’ve often said that the only opinions that matter of yourself in life are yours and God’s.               While this topic caused a nice conversation between us, I found later in the week I was tested in this area.   It’s easy to say one doesn’t care about the approval of their peers, but let’s be honest we all want liked by those around us.   I had a situation...