After finishing Bathtubs in a Field I had to figure out what to write next. This time I looked to my own life. I decided to write about a woman in her 30s who hadn’t found a husband yet but really wanted kids. She gets into foster care and gets matched with two little girls.

I worked on this story over 3-4 sessions of NaNoWriMo and, yet, somehow, it still isn’t complete. (sigh) Someday I hope to get back to this one and figure out how it ends. However, it is currently so long that I may make it a two book story or possibly a trilogy. Obviously, it is unpublished and not yet available for purchase.

Sneak Peek:

That night, a Thursday, she was flipping through the channels at the top of the hour and ran across a TV show a few friends had recommended, Bones. It was on cable so she knew it was a rerun, but she had never seen any of it so she had no clue where it fell in the sequence and didn’t feel like she was missing anything. The story revolved around a little boy who had gone missing a few days prior and who’s body was found in a field. His mother was a foster mother to two brothers. Elizabeth had never thought of it but the show made it clear that siblings were often split up in the foster care system. On the one hand Elizabeth could understand the need to split them up to make sure they get a good, safe place to live. But on the other hand she couldn’t imagine any family not being willing to take two boys instead of just one. How could you turn a brother away? That episode had a great ending and both the brothers were allowed to go back and live with their foster mother even though technically it was against policies because of the details in what had happened. Elizabeth idly wondered how hard it was to become a foster parent.