The kids (and their parents, too!) learned to surf last summer. It was a blast. Miss Sarah and Miss Marlena taught us and they had just as much fun as we did!
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
Tuesday, February 19, 2013
Rant
"You haven't posted in a year."
Seriously?
Ok, I checked. It's been more than a year.
But I hate posting. It's like sewing. It makes me so mad - every time I do it I swear I won't do it again. I want to throw the computer (or sewing machine) out the window. Literally.
Who looks at this blog anyway? Family? Well....you either live here or I just saw you less than two months ago. Any pictures I post at this point will be older than your current mental image of us. (although Zay's teeth are looking much better now....but I don't even have a picture of those)
I decided to post today. I started looking through pictures (which I have to access by networking another computer)....We have pictures from this past year in 3 different places on our computer....many of the pictures being repeats in multiple places on the computer....and since the kids use the cameras, some files containing VAST VAST VAST amounts of pictures unsuitable for blogging. Then I tried to sign into our blog. Couldn't do it. Tried to get "help accessing your account" - "email my password"....then couldn't even get signed into hotmail. Finally did it. Finally got my password emailed to me. Restrained the urge to punch the computer. Signed in to our blog. Then clicked "post" and tried to get pictures. They're on another computer. Cool. Don't know how to get them on here. There isn't a choice on here that says "upload pictures from another networked computer".
BTW...FYI....I did clean the office before I sat down to blog so the piles and dust and stuff in the carpet wouldn't put me over the edge while I tried not to throw the computer out the window....I'm telling you, posting is ALOT of work!
I just went through this resisting-the-urge-to-demolish-computer angst last month. Yeah, when I finally got the 2013 Costco photo calendar done in February. Sorry it was so late, Grandparents. And sorry I missed all y'all's birthdays who had them while I didn't have a calendar. (ok, yeah, I miss them even when I do have a calendar...Happy Birthday, Family. I love you. And while I'm doing a parenthetical aside about birthdays....I'm sorry, Rachel, that we just celebrated your Feb. 3rd birthday two days ago. I love you.) So all that work for those calendars....and those are the pics I would post anyway... I'm going to try to email you access to our Costco account online. Then you can look at the calendar. It'll be just like a blog. A Costco blog!! Sweet!
It might take me a few minutes to "get help accessing my Costco account" so I can send you the info....
Wow. Time to pick the kids up from school. BTW....FYI....I only had two calls from the school while I was trying to post for you. (one from the nurse with a kid who says his throat is sore and one from the principal with a kid sent to his office today (again)). Gotta run.
I love you.
Seriously?
Ok, I checked. It's been more than a year.
But I hate posting. It's like sewing. It makes me so mad - every time I do it I swear I won't do it again. I want to throw the computer (or sewing machine) out the window. Literally.
Who looks at this blog anyway? Family? Well....you either live here or I just saw you less than two months ago. Any pictures I post at this point will be older than your current mental image of us. (although Zay's teeth are looking much better now....but I don't even have a picture of those)
I decided to post today. I started looking through pictures (which I have to access by networking another computer)....We have pictures from this past year in 3 different places on our computer....many of the pictures being repeats in multiple places on the computer....and since the kids use the cameras, some files containing VAST VAST VAST amounts of pictures unsuitable for blogging. Then I tried to sign into our blog. Couldn't do it. Tried to get "help accessing your account" - "email my password"....then couldn't even get signed into hotmail. Finally did it. Finally got my password emailed to me. Restrained the urge to punch the computer. Signed in to our blog. Then clicked "post" and tried to get pictures. They're on another computer. Cool. Don't know how to get them on here. There isn't a choice on here that says "upload pictures from another networked computer".
BTW...FYI....I did clean the office before I sat down to blog so the piles and dust and stuff in the carpet wouldn't put me over the edge while I tried not to throw the computer out the window....I'm telling you, posting is ALOT of work!
I just went through this resisting-the-urge-to-demolish-computer angst last month. Yeah, when I finally got the 2013 Costco photo calendar done in February. Sorry it was so late, Grandparents. And sorry I missed all y'all's birthdays who had them while I didn't have a calendar. (ok, yeah, I miss them even when I do have a calendar...Happy Birthday, Family. I love you. And while I'm doing a parenthetical aside about birthdays....I'm sorry, Rachel, that we just celebrated your Feb. 3rd birthday two days ago. I love you.) So all that work for those calendars....and those are the pics I would post anyway... I'm going to try to email you access to our Costco account online. Then you can look at the calendar. It'll be just like a blog. A Costco blog!! Sweet!
It might take me a few minutes to "get help accessing my Costco account" so I can send you the info....
Wow. Time to pick the kids up from school. BTW....FYI....I only had two calls from the school while I was trying to post for you. (one from the nurse with a kid who says his throat is sore and one from the principal with a kid sent to his office today (again)). Gotta run.
I love you.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
CUTE SHOTS
M dressed up for Constitution Day at school.
Big helpers...
The doorbell rang one day and this is the salesman I found standing on my porch when I answered the door.....
Maybe a drawstring on the swimsuit would help....
New Stages
Our youngest out of diapers.
Wow we're out of diapers for the first time in nearly 13 years!
No crib, no high chair....no baby.
Wierd.
Our oldest into braces....
and earrings....and teen years....and junior high....
and staying home with kids alone on occasion.....
Wierd.
Recurring theme
I think it's been a few years since we've done a cake with a theme other than Star Wars....
September - M's 8th
July - I's 3rd
Examples of "set-ups" that are being elaborately built daily around here....
Camping in June.
Our campsite had a perfect pile of rocks for all sorts of lightsaber fights...
I haven't posted in half a year! I'm so sorry. I can see I haven't posted since my struggle with anxiety last spring. Here is a poem I wrote coming out of that time....and then I'll try to catch up this blog!
Fragile Calm
The storm has passed now.
The tempest that raged and destroyed
has now moved on,
leaving a surreal, gray haze over its wake of destruction
The threat is now over.
…..or is it?
A fragile calm settles in the aftermath,
hesitant, uneasy….
Every lingering breath of wind,
Every splash of residual raindrop
Taunts….
Haunts….
Calling back the memory - the reality
Fresh...and raw.
Questions and confusion persist
And fear lingers….
Challenging the certainty,
Threatening the hope….
Of this fragile calm.
Christa 4/11
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