Okay then. I switched hosting services and apparently my blog is propogating, so you may want to avert your eyes.  I don’t even know what that means. 

Not everything is in place yet – comments don’t work and the archives and categories links don’t work either.

Stay tuned.

Hi y’all. Just want to thank you for your sweet words and kind comments and all those prayers you have lifted on Sean’s behalf this past month.  You might expect your mom or your grannny to pray for you, but people you’ve never seen before? Amazing.  And it fills my heart up to the very brim. 

My blog is still not completely on the rails.  Comments are not coming through to my email right now, so the only way I know if you’ve left a comment is if I check in on my blog and then as many of you know, I like to respond to what you’ve said and chat you up and bug you and that’s harder to do as it stands. Just wanted you to know that.  I will resume bugging y’all when the email is fixed. 

I currently have five large bottles of ketchup in my pantry and I’ll tell you why on Monday. Oh I know.  The suspense is probably killing you, but try to carry on.

My blog was down all day.  It was not a fun day what with all the hand wringing and brow mopping and rending of garments.  But I probably had more fun than the folks who were trying to fix things.  I fix broken things by jiggling them and then jiggling harder and if that doesn’t work then I slam the lid several times.  It makes my rational and methodical husband cry.  

One of the things we’ve had to do to make things work is remove all the photos.  Once we figure out what’s going and get it fixed, maybe I will put some of them back up.

But (crossing fingers) – I’m back!  But not with a new post.  Read the one I put up yesterday and pretend that yesterday is today.  Unless you are reading today, then today would still be today and not tomorrow. In which case you don’t need to pretend.  Think of it as a blonde version of daylight savings time, but with reading material.

Marie who writes the blog PractiGal! Yay Marie! 

Olivia chose Marie’s suggested title “Make A Wish” as the winning entry in the Fabulous Photo contest.  Congratulations Marie, your book is on the way!

There were so many great entries, it was really hard to pick just one which is why I handed that task over to Olivia.  Thank you everyone for playing along!

I’m going on spring break and will be back another day.

When I was a little girl and I had my birthday, it was a birthDAY. You got a little cake, maybe a toy, maybe a few extra privileges and then the next day, back to reality, back to scrubbing floors and waiting on my ugly stepsisters.

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Sean?  He has a birthMONTH.  It’s a social season.

The party circuit kicked off earlier in the month when my parents were visiting. We had cake, we had presents, we had fun.

Then, the day before his birthday, Sean’s best friend and her parent’s came over with a very cool present and took us all to see the entertaining Bee movie.

Then on his official birthday, the two sets of surrogate grandparents brought over four of their grandchildren.  More presents and more cake and more fun.  Because I’m an idiot (don’t tell Sean I just used that bad word) I got all the little children high on cake and THEN gave them those New Year’s Eve style horn blowers.  The man pictured above paid $1 to each child to buy their horn blower back. Bargain.

Next week when we gather with the other grandparents there will be the giving of thanks and the feasting on the turkey and multiple pies. And then – you guessed it – cake and presents.  But no horn blowers.

You may or may not have noticed that I have taken down most of my photos.  I am in the process of watermarking them, which is no easy task given the flakey temperament of my computer these days.  However, after reading this post, I decided it was something that really needed to be done sooner rather than later.

So far I have done one.  If you can spare a moment, take a look at it please and let me know how it looks in your browser.

UPDATE: Thank you all very much for your help!  Looks like it’s working.

You know what? I don’t really like computers and they don’t really like me.  Truthfully, I have issues with anything that plugs in.   I seem to have some sort of magnetic field around me that destroys any electronic device within one mile.

In August, my lap top died.  So we went out and bought another one and I was so happy.  I had dreams. Dreams of writing and computering and being productive.  But this new computer, it is a big piece of poo.  And frankly, I don’t know if it is IBM ThinkPad, Lenovo or Vista or me but all combined none of it works worth a flip.  This machine makes dial up look zippy.  I have had more problems with it than I could list here or that you probably want to hear about, although I’m really in the mood to whine right now.  All that to say, since we brought this new computer home, every ounce of creative mental energy I have has been spent cursing in my head – cursing IBM, Lenovo and Bill Gates. Sometimes I change up the order.

So then.  In about five minutes this pile of plastic crud will be boxed up and returned from whence it came.  After that I’m not sure what I’m going to do, but I’ll think of something.

In other news, I’m taking the Love and Logic parenting course and I gotta tell you, it’s working.  I wish I’d taken it several years ago.  Anyone else out there taken this course? If so, leave me a comment and tell me about your experience.