Para Sailing 7.15.2009

Posted July 24th, 2009 by Mom | Comments (0)

While we were at the beach on vacation, B signed me up to go para sailing.  I have wanted to go for a long time and never could arrange a time that was convenient.  My parents took care of the boys while B took me – THANK YOU, Mom and Dad!

Here are some shot of me having a blast!  B was on the shore taking pictures and there was the crew taking pictures, and I took some pictures from the air – a total collaboration of pictures!

Fridays

Posted July 24th, 2009 by Mom | Comments (0)

Most people in the work force eagerly await Fridays.  Is it because they dislike their jobs so much?  Is it because they anticipate all their free time over the weekend?  Is it because they have projects at home to do over the weekend that can’t get done during the week?  Is it that they are so overworked during the week that they can’t do necessary tasks (washing/ironing, cleaning dishes, dusting, etc.) during their evenings and they anticipate maybe getting caught up at home during the weekend?  I ponder all these questions as I am home doing the “home” tasks while B is busy at work making money so I can stay home and do the “house” tasks during the week and hopefully spend a little time with him while he is home during the weekends.

I have spent this week mostly at home, in the house, cleaning.  Just like business people’s meetings that seem to be never ending or repetitive, my stay at home mom life is never ending and quite repetitive as well.  Sure there are unusual projects that crop up – like washing the master bedroom window scarves yesterday (that I only noticed said “dry clean only” when I was shoving them in the dryer… fortunately they were fine and are now hanging up, though a bit more fluffy – at least dust free!) or dusting the blinds, stuff that doesn’t need to be done weekly, but still needs to be done at least quarterly.  Same as the business world’s “special projects.”

Today it is a little after 11 and I have been to Walmart (yesterday went to Walmart as well and need to go again, as I noticed we are out of cat litter – will I ever NOT have a list of things to buy at Walmart?!) made up my bed, on my second load of laundry, rounded up the trash and took it out and need to unload/load the dishwasher.  Next task is dusting the living room blinds.  Alas, I am procrastinating by blogging.

Boys have cleaned up their rooms, and April is outside playing with J.  C is on the living room couch playing Nintendo DS and I’ve got 4 more loads of laundry to do – ironing can wait until tomorrow when April is not running around the house – afraid that the cord of the iron will get caught on her and will fall off and hurt her or us.  It was much simpler being a child, although when I was a child all I wanted to do was be a grownup.  I need to work on my contentment issues.

I’m off to clean house some more.  I really want to finish today’s to-do list before mowing our in-law’s grass this evening – while B edges and weedeats.  If I get finished with today’s list, I can reward myself with a little reading of Harry Potter book 6 tonight at bedtime, as I finished book 5 last night (with not a few tears shed over the ending – no spoilers from me if you haven’t read it and if you have read it, you understand what I’m referring to…).

So, to people in the business world – your life is more similar to mine that either of us would care to admit.  You get paid with money and I get paid with the occasional “thank you.”

Site Maintenance

Posted March 7th, 2008 by Dad | Comments (0)

The site will be undergoing some minor maintenance over the next few days. Please ignore the dust and falling bricks.

Site Upgraded

Posted September 9th, 2007 by Dad | Comments (1)

I just did some maintenance on the site, for those who care about such things:

• I updated the theme of the site. Dig the fort in the logo? It is the kid’s fort from the backyard and the inspiration for the name of the blog. There will be some more edits to colors, etc after working with D, but the basic layout is here to stay I expect.
• I imported the old posts from my personal rarely-updated blog which I have now retired. They are dated but I didn’t want to lose them. They start around C’s birth. For those of you subscribing to the site via RSS feeds, you may have a blast of chaos. Sorry ’bout that.
• I added a link to our new photo gallery. There is little content there at the moment, but I am working to import the thousands of family photos we have taken over the years into the gallery. Now the family members who keep asking for photos (understandably) can order prints at will
• Old photos from before D started blogging will not work until I finish populating the gallery.

Pictures update

Posted August 22nd, 2007 by Mom | Comments (0)

I know what the problem is with the pictures. However, I don’t know how to fix it. When I uploaded previous pictures, I was given a “thumbnail” option. When I uploaded these pictures, there wasn’t a thumbnail option. B will help me remedy this and hopefully they will load quicker next time.

I am still learning with this blog. I’m not very good at adding anything to the blog other than words. I’m hoping that B will write out instructions for me for uploading future pictures.

Another reason I need B’s assistance is that the new pictures are taken with B’s advanced camera system and the pictures are very good quality, thus taking up a lot of computer space. I told B that I could reduce the quality to let the pictures load quicker, and he said, “No, I want my pictures to look good on the blog.”

Okay, B, the ball is in your court to help me…

Pictures

Posted August 18th, 2007 by Mom | Comments (0)

Sorry about the last 2 posts. I am trying to download the pictures. The pictures were up, but I downloaded them incorrectly. Am trying hard to quickly get the pictures up because the kids are so darned cute!

Try back soon!