Blogiversary 2

  Hi friends and family!  I can hardly believe it's been another year around the sun with you on this blog.  I really haven't had much time to reflect on it, and there was no official celebrating like last year, but I mostly still feel the same about blogging.

  I guess I can add that I am glad I have given myself some more freedom in not feeling like I have to blog each weekday.  There are days when I look through pics and have got nothing for you.  There are other days that I am asleep on the couch and can't fathom even sitting up at a computer.   And there are even days when I agonize over a blog and it takes me more than my 1 hour of kid-free me time to compile pics and get a cohesive thought/theme going.  I snap at Hannah for bothering me because I'm still working on it after she comes home and goodness forbid she might need my help.  It's those days that I feel like this is such a waste, of my time and energy.  And wasting is one of those things that goes against every part of me.  I get all extreme and think, who even cares anyway.  Then there are also days (most) when I sit down at the computer, search through some recent pics and a blog is born in 20 minutes.  I've got some good laughs, good advice, good food, or all of the above and I feel the blog mojo.  And then I get a comment or two, or a quick text from someone saying they needed that blog or it made their day or thank you.  Or, even better, after having a busy/frazzled morning, here and there and everywhere physically and in my head, I am able to take a moment to myself, sip some tea, sit down at the computer, center myself with some cohesive/thorough/maybe even meaningful thoughts on the blog, laugh at the crazy things that have happened and afterward my heart rate has lowered, my mood has lightened, and the day can continue.  Whew, long sentence.  I guess all that to say, this place is often therapeutic, and so I'm stickin to it.

So, wherever I am or whatever I am doing, like making sweet childhood memories with my kiddos,

going silly or going crazy,

doing chores and errands,

(Joel dropped a whole 2-dozen carton of eggs last week and only ONE was not cracked open as he was helping unload our Costco groceries.  No wasting, just lots of eggs for every meal!)

 multitasking (at it's finest I might add),

 making up new dishes, or going with the tried and true,

 hanging with this adorable, sweet, stubborn, and silly ham,

adventuring with the fam,

or adventuring with my favorite person and #1 blog reader (I must add),

THANK YOU!

  Thank you for coming on this fun adventure with me.  And I do hope I am adding some sunshine to your day.