I think that Facebook contributed to my lack of blogging in a big way. Why spend an hour uploading deep thoughts with pictures when a 160 character witty comment will do?
I think my paper thin skin had something to do with it. I don't "do" confrontation and I was frustrated with strangers trying to take up debate with my thoughts. For that reason, I may decide to disable comments. But I don't want to do that, so if you want to argue with someone, please go somewhere else. Like my banner says, this space is about ME. No apologies. I reserve the right to delete comments if I feel like it. Deal with it.
I think my frustration with the "my life is perfect" blogs had something to do with it. Those people who blog about how perfectly darling their children are and how crafty they are and how perfectly perfect their life is. I am not those things. Sometimes I have a good morning. Sometimes I even do a craft or two. I read a blog recently where someone related blogging to "show and tell." Most people just bring their shiniest, newest toy to the big event, ignoring all of of the well loved, worn out toys that really tell a story. I was afraid that by displaying my "broken in" toys on the blog that I was portraying myself and my family in a less than ideal light, when compared to the other "still in box" toys that are out there on display.
So, as my first order of business, I am displaying an old, broken toy. I REALLY don't like snow. I think it's pretty, I like it when it cancels school. I don't like that it is cold, and that the cold turns to wet. I don't like all of the special layers that are necessary just to go "play" in it. I don't like driving in it and all of the Pacific Northwest drivers who THINK that they know what they are doing in this stuff. I don't like cleaning up the puddles on my floor after my kids track it inside. Yes, this makes me a TOTAL lame-o mom. My poor kids. They will never learn to ski. They will never have their mom drive them to the school parking lot to do donuts when there is no school. I *WILL* offer to turn on the gas fireplace and play Rummikub. Does that count?
And so I don't end on a downer of a "welcome back" post, here are our most recent family pictures, taken by the fantastically fantastic Kamee June this fall when we ran away from home for a week to the beautiful fantasy land that is Southern California:
