Starting Something New

Blogging. Do I really have anything to say? I guess if you took half of what happens around here everyday, pages would be filled. Maybe this will be a fun way to focus on my kids individually and probably help me to be retrospective about each of them. Maybe I can look back after a few weeks or a few months and realize that life does happen; that we are moving forward.

So Bob is watching the US Open, Lindsey is downstairs in her cave probably on her computer getting ready to go to Sojourners tonight, Jerrod is outside with Trey, Erik is away with Stephanie and Bill, Erika is outside playing along with Kloey and Cora. Micah is getting a diaper changed and I will spare you the details of color and texture. Let's just leave it at black and white.

Kloey had a horse show this morning. I hope I can get a picture from my Dad to put on here. She was the only one in her classes so she got three blue ribbons and then went back in the afternoon to receive her Grand Champion Walk Trot trophy. It is so good to see her truly happy and feeling good about herself. Her life is a conundrum and it is hard to see her swing up and down and right and left all in one day. She is pretty good at riding and has a special relationship with Marley, her teenage mentor. This little girl deserves some joy.

Erik was home for a grand total of about 20 minutes. He was away this weekend on a junior high youth group camping trip and then came home to pack for a week in New York with Auntie Steph and Uncle Bill. It will be so quiet around here without him. We did not even get to hear about the camping trip although he looked pretty tired which probably means he had a good time.

Coming home from vacation with all clean laundry is like heaven. I could not figure out why this was such a calm day until I realized that there was no mountain of laundry to attack. I just recently dwindled the laundry pile down enough to be ready to wash the coats and snowpants and hats and mittens from last winter. If I wait much longer they will be in use again. What a scary thought. I like laundry.

Now I need to decide what to accomplish this week. Cleaning, painting, loving up on the babies, schoolwork, playing outside, making it to the beach this week? Some of it? All of it? Maybe I should just let it happen...