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Back to Blogging

I've not been in a blogging mood for a while now, but I want to give this another go. :) There's certainly plenty going on to blog about. With the arrival of spring and summer, we've been planting flowers and veggies, moving rocks around, planting grass in our mud pit of a side yard, having a new roof put on the house, taking a few fishing excursions with the boys, involving our family in various church activities, etc., etc., etc. So, why I haven't felt like blogging, I really don't know. But, here's fair warning - I'm back with lots to share through my finger tips!!

(I'll be posting some photos from some of our activities in a bit.)

An Autumn Look for My Blog. . .

I was getting bored with the look of my blog, so I found this really neat website with lots of free blogger templates. And believe me, if I figured out how to make this change, anybody can do it!

The weather has been slowly cooling, but not enough to actually start burning the costly gas furnace yet! We though last year's heating bills were ridiculous, I don't even want to imagine what this winter is going to cost us. I'm torn. I want an unseasonably warm winter so we can afford to keep the house reasonably comfortable, and yet I want my boys to have some snow to play in. Last winter was a failure in the snow department.

But Autumn has only just begun, so I must focus on the now instead of the future. We are in the midst of hunting season--archery for buck and doe, shotgun for grouse, etc. (It actually could be rifle for grouse and not shotgun. Apparently there's a difference. Who knew?!!) Anyway, between overtime at work for my hubby, some minor house renovations, and hunting season, it's been a little crazy around our house. Oh, and I hurt my back again, so I can't even help my man out with painting. Very frustrating!

I'm not letting the frustration overtake my excitement for fall, though! I love this time of year! Some of our trees are just starting to change their leaf color and the air has that crisp coolness to it. I love being able to put on my fuzzy socks and settle in under a fleece throw with a good book and a cup of coffee. Or hot apple cider or hot chocolate! Tea would be ok, too. Pretty much any steaming beverage. :)

So, I will probably post some pictures of our renovations when they are completed. But I'm not even going to venture a guess on when that will be. Meanwhile I will be nursing my sore back trying not to feel too guilty about how hard my hubby is having to work these days.

Mommy's New Toy

So, as soon as I had successfully added one picture to a post, Jeff found that he needed our digital camera for work, leaving me severely disadvantaged this past week! All the opportunities with the boys in the sunshine, and me with nothing digital to show for it! I don't think the boys were complaining about it, though. :)

But last night, my sweetie came through for me as he always does! He loaded us all in the truck after dinner and drove us down to Best Buy where he bought me a beautiful new digital camera! A Canon PowerShot SX100IS to be exact! I am in LOVE with it already, even though I only know how to work the on/off button at this point! It was an ordeal with the boys along, however, but that's life with preschoolers. They had fallen asleep on the way and woke up very crabby when we got there. Let's just say that we took advantage of the comfy stuffed chairs in front of a BIG screen TV for the first 15 minutes until everyone calmed down enough to proceed to the camera counter. Where I kept handing the boys peanut butter crackers and their sippy cups while daddy peppered the sales guy with all the questions. (He's better at that than I am anyway.) And the boys really are generally well behaved, just a wee bit emotional when woken up too soon.

In the end, I have a fabulous new toy that I will be annoying friends and family with for quite some time! Thank you, honey!! (Like he reads this anyway.) And as soon as you see more pictures here, you'll know that me and my new camera are becoming best friends! :)

Pictures Coming Soon!

I do plan to embellish this blog with some personal photos. I am just experiencing a little bit of technical difficulty. I believe I mentioned in an earlier post that I don't come to conclusions quickly, and that includes learning new things like downloading our digital photos to my new laptop. I had everything figured out and running smoothly on the old desktop. But I just had to have a laptop, and now I feel as if I have been thrust back to computer kindergarten. :) Oh, there is progress, just ever so snail-paced.

My goal is to have some family photos posted by the end of this weekend. Because what is a blog really worth without the family pics!!

A Complete Thought

So, I've been contemplating entering this blogging world for some time now. Today I decided it was time to dive in and get my fingers wet, so to speak.

I've had great interest in writing all my life, as in "someday, maybe". But somewhere in the back of my mind, the prospect of actually penning words onto paper for even just myself to read might prove that I have no talent for doing such.

However, of late, the need for space to share somewhat intelligent thoughts that a toddler and preschooler would definitely not understand has arisen quite sharply. Every stay-at-home mother would understand and wholeheartedly agree.

This blog is, therefore, my solution. It will hopefully fulfill my need to write down complete thoughts, and help preserve my sanity, as well as, my knowledge of the English language beyond "I'm hungry!", "I'm poopy!", and "He took my toy!"