A New Blogger

Please welcome to the world of blogging...Carolyn, the wife of my son and mother of my as yet unborn granddaughter

The Quilt

I may not have been blogging much but I have kept myself occupied. This is the quilt top that Kristen and I started several months ago. I finally finished it today and hope to find someone to quilt it before too long.

I like it because it reminds me of Kristen; cheerful, random with lots of personality.

Still There

...but Dixie's getting jealous.

He Moved

Jed's been over for a week and a half. If his family is wondering how he's doing, let's just say he is feeling very much at home.

Thursday Thirteen

I woke up crabby this morning so I thought I'd better write a Thursday Thirteen of things I'm grateful for. Hopefully it will get me out of this mood...

1. The sunshine
2. A warm house, clean and clutter free
3. The music theory group- Chelsea, Tim, Sean, Micah and Joey
4. Playing Christmas songs with Chelsea and Tim (and Micah, if he ever comes home from PEI)
5. My kids
6. Wes
7. The "Artist Date" I had with Yvonne last week
8. My new slippers


9. Peppermint flavoured green tea
10. The butter keeper that I bought in Chicago
11. The soup sock I'm using to make stock. It is an amazing little thing.
12. Monday night dinners
13. Reading material of all kinds

In my very first post, back on April 13, 2005, I promised the following four things to myself and to my faithful readers.

• I will do my best to avoid spelling mistakes and grammatical errors.
• I will post as frequently as possible or when I am moved to write something.
• I will try my best not to embarrass my children-even though that's almost impossible.
• I will not try to be too deep or profound. Otherwise, I may not write anything!

I think that I have been mostly successful in these 4 things. Blogging has been fun for me and I've met some interesting and funny people over the past few years through this blog. But I haven't posted much these last few months. I'm not sure why but I seem to have lost interest. Maybe my life is just too ordinary and mundane. I don't have many cute kid stories. My kids are all still cute to me but they're all taller than me, some are smarter than me (I won't tell you which ones) and they just don't do as many cute things as they used to. The international students often gave me good fodder for stories but they have moved back to Mexico and Brasil. The dog is still around and provides entertainment for us here but I haven't felt like writing about her either.

Reading my old posts recently inspired me to try to start posting more regularly again. I would not have remembered some of the things that I wrote about if I had not posted. So, my faithful readers (and I think there may be a couple of you left) I will try to post a little more frequently. This blog may bore you but then again, you don't have to read it.

At the very least, my grammar may improve if I write a little more. I lost the cord for my camera to download pictures so that has also reduced my posting options. Hopefully I'll find it before too long and you will see pictures from our recent trip to Chicago.

Tomorrow, I'll try a Thursday Thirteen or maybe a Thursday Three. We'll see.

Another Birthday

Happy birthday Eric!

This picture was taken last year so imagine Joey and Eric looking just a little older.