Thank you for the kind words, everyone!
@TheMistressT that’s a good point about the white in the kitchen; I hadn’t thought of that.
@Tee, thank you for sharing that 
@endymion I feel at this point more relief than excitement, lol… I had hoped to have reached this point by February. But alas, it’s done. I feel like I can’t get excited until I get the proof and go over it… I had some issues with the upload.
I ran into a snag with gettig the proof. I put my marketplace as amazon . com, since the KDP for Canada is the same as the one for the US in terms of author usage… but it turns out that if my marketplace is set for amazon . com, they won’t send a proof to Canada. But because I already hit the submit button, I have to wait the 72 hours for the review process before I can change the marketplace… sigh.
I’m going to take a deep breath before I start the next volume… One slice at a time.