lost my mind

and forgot to post Saturday! I hope no one holds it against me! Between conferencing, driving home and spending time with the family I totally forgot! Sorry. . . .

Today is our local crop walk, I'll have some nice pictures to post afterward! I'll make sure I do . . Until then, off to church!

what to write about??

So today I am in Chicagoland for a Therapeutic Listening conference with a co-worker. We are having a great time. We learned lots at the conference, then went to IKEA, Sephora for the girls haircare and then the Cheesecake Factory. Carrot cake cheese cake, YUM YUM. Day two is tomorrow and we are going to learn more about specific protocols, modulated music, and of course more ear anatomy! WOOHOO. . .

Taxes = check = done

TAXES ARE DONE!! HOORAY!!
We always wait until the last minute. . . . and yes, I know we shouldn't but that seems to be our mode of operation since the girls have been home for a ton of reasons that I would prefer not to share at this moment in time. . .

So, we are NOT waiting to the very last minute, which is good, but still pretty late~ A little more printing to do, envelopes to address, stamps to stick and take em' to the post office. . . ALL DONE! Thanks be to God!

wicked wednesday

didn't have time to make a great post, way too busy. . . .too much work for this public school employee to do after work today in addition to worship and the other great things we do in our family! Tomorrow taxes! YIKES!!

To Blog or not to Blog?

That is the question?

Why Blog?
Blog is defined as:
(a blend of the term web log) is a type of website or part of a website. Blogs are usually maintained by an individual with regular entries of commentary, descriptions of events, or other material such as graphics or video. Entries are commonly displayed in reverse-chronological order. Blog can also be used as a verb, meaning to maintain or add content to a blog.

Most blogs are interactive, allowing visitors to leave comments and even message each other via widgets on the blogs and it is this interactivity that distinguishes them from other static websites.

Many blogs provide commentary or news on a particular subject; others function as more personal online diaries. A typical blog combines text, images, and links to other blogs, Web pages, and other media related to its topic. The ability of readers to leave comments in an interactive format is an important part of many blogs. Most blogs are primarily textual, although some focus on art (art blog), photographs (photoblog), videos (video blogging), music (MP3 blog), and audio (podcasting). Microblogging is another type of blogging, featuring very short posts.

As of 16 February 2011, there were over 156 million public blogs in existence. Citation is most reliable: Wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog, Retrieved on April 12, 2010.

In the beginning I had a blog because I wanted to share our adoption journey with our family and well. . . our family was farther away than we cared for, so this was a way to share the story. It was private, only invited people could access it. My girls and our process was private way back then. Then the girls came home and well. . . it became public. I thought the girls are home, everything is legal and well, why not let others view "the blog". I'm not really a political blogger, I don't have a particular style to blogging. I pretty much use the blog as an online diary of some sort. To share snapshots of our family with others that know us and that well. . . we don't know, since IT IS public. I hope that some people reading feel as though they could adopt children from another country and that it's not a far away, non achievable goal. I hope that for some, the blog is just funny at times. I hope for some it's taken serious as some of the posts are, serious that is. . . .

I find it interesting that somedays I really want to share the random thoughts that float throughout my dura matter and other days I want to be quiet and not share. Before I post, I always ask myself is this something I will regret sometime in the future or even after I hit the "Publish Post" button.

I wish I knew more of my visitors. I know some of them by their locations and others by their email or FB posts. . . I know my husband claims to be a contributor of the blog, but rarely posts although does read often :-). Sometimes this is how he knows what's on my mind!

So I guess I blog to remember certain specific things, other times I blog because I have to put something together like a PPT or a short video clip and I know I'll keep those as keepsakes. I hope that someday my girls will publish a post about something random. That would be cool . . . For now, I'll just keep rambling and hopefully someone will find some meaning in it. For now, I say good-bye!

Happy Monday

It was one of THOSE days and I was happy to come home. . . Not that I'm not happy to come home after work, but today was really really happy! I did manage a run after work, but think the sun needs to come out soon. The cloudy days are NOT helping.

The first nice day of the year! Temperature wise that is~

I so love it when the weather guessers are right! It was in the 80's here today and it was beautiful outside. I couldn't have asked for a better day on the weekend. The family went for a 6.5 mile bike ride today. The girls got new bikes last week and have been itching to go and ride, so today we did! The weather was threatening to be stormy, but was nice all day. . . as I write the thunderstorms are coming so I thought I'd better post before I have to turn off the computer for the night. We took out the grill and made brats (a great traditional Wisconsin feast, ha ha). The girls watched a movie before bed and all is well in the H. Household. . .

This beautiful weather makes me itch for summer. I already have the countdown in my calendar for how many days of school left before break! I don't want it to go too fast though, I have lots to do before June. . . So here's hoping for a somewhat spring like week. The weather guessers are guessing a high of 54 degrees for tomorrow. I'm not looking forward to that :-(