What is a blog?

I know that most of you are blog expert's, but for those newbies about how about a little blog info
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blog

There are blogs about TV, blogs about families adopting, blogs about food, blogs about current events, blogs about celebrities, you can also find blogs about your favorite show, it goes on and on.

If you want to manage your blogs you can check out sites like www.bloglines.com there you can subscribe too all of your favorite blogs and when someone writes a new blog it will be updated there.

Hope that helps a bit!!

Why a blog?

Well it's something I've been thinking about for a long time. I love reading other blogs, I'm sort of addicted to peeking into others people lives. So, why me? Well first of all I have lots of thoughts that I'd like to share with someone (anyone!) and my dear sweet husband and kids might be a bit tired of my rants ;) My most important I wanted a blog as a peek into our lives. I hope that family members and friends will keep up with up and check in from time to time. To see what cute things the kids are doing, places we've been, and yes, those rants I was talking about earlier!

So, sit back and enjoy the show! Thanks for visiting! Do leave a comment!

Oh, one final thought, as soon as I figure out how I'm going to make this blog 'private' so you will have to have a blogger account (at least I think). Leave me a comment here and I will add you to the 'in' list! I do this for several reasons, I'm going to be sharing pictures of the kids and I don't want some creepy Internet predator using them for something perverse. And I don't want to have to be worried about what I post, where we live, where we've been....I don't want those creepy Internet perverts showing up at our door. But getting an account isn't hard and it will all be worth it, I promise! Just look at these kids and tell them no :)

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Almost 10 months old, just like her adoring big brother!!


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Couldn't have express it better myself! Welcome to my life!!

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The Great New York Breastfeeding Test

Great idea, great article!!



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My last year in my 20s

I'm 29 tomorrow, I can't believe it. The strangest thing about it is that I see 23 year olds and I think I'm still them, but I'm not. I'm 23 + 6 years. 6 years wiser, 2 kids wiser, 3 moves wiser. I don't mid age, moving forward, becoming more me. I look forward to 30, 40, 50 and beyond... I wonder what each new year will bring me.

I don't feel like I need to go backward and be young again. I've lived that, I made it out the other side. I love my life now, in this moment. These ARE the best days of my life.

So, 29 tomorrow. Happy birthday ME!!

What a week!

It all started with my little guy sleeping though the night in his BIG BOY BED! I'm so excited for him, he's so excited for him too!!

Skye, 6.5 months old, is officially crawling (and pulling into a full stand) now. She really gets around too! No more leaving the room and hoping she'll be in the same place when you get back! It's fun because now she can sit up and crawl, so Carter can play with her and she loves it. She loves him, he's her world, she can't wait to do all the cool things her big brother does. And he loves her too, very gentle and thoughtful little boy!

Then after my first adventure out to the zoo with 2 kids by myself, we repurchased our membership. On Wednesday we went to the last of their evening concerts. The music was pretty cool, but too loud for Carter, despite being far away from it. So we enjoyed our picnic dinner then off to explore animals. The animals are frisky at night, we saw an Arctic fox, the anteaters (my new favorite), a tree roo (very soft looking), camels, turtles (or where they tortoise?), a sloth, and I'm sure a few more. We must do this evening zoo trip a few times next year, it wasn't as crowded as during the day or weekends.

Then Thursday a visit from Grandma to get tomato's to can on Friday, then a full day of canning tomato's. They are like little jars on sunshine in the winter!

Now, off to Grandma and Papa's boat for the weekend. It's a long drive, but I'm hoping the kids will sleep. Hope it doesn't rain the whole time! This should be a fun way to close the chapter on summer. BTW, what happened to summer? We were just planting, and now it's over, my little girl went from an infant to trying to be a toddler. Geesh, if you ever want time to pass quickly, just watch kids grow and change, it'll fly by!