diving in.. or runniing in

I have had my second and final cortisone shot. The next step is surgery (when it becomes too bad and I can't stand it anymore, and it is no where near that ) So I am going to start slowly and run. I figure if I know where its going anyway, I might as well enjoy myself until I have to have surgery right? And believe me, my kids will also thank me for it. Can you say"much happier mom"?
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Oh and I do plan to get back to regular scheduled posts. We leave for vaca to St. Lucia by way of Illinois (kiddo dropping) I am sure there will be plenty of photos. The problem with blogger now is I have to drop the size of the photos before I post them, so it just takes time and I haven't done it.. Some day soon.


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Oh and our intern has arrived. The girls LOVE her. She has been super busy, but she has been here for 4 days. She will be with us until mid December. She is interning in the preschool ministry at our church. She is really nice.

why won't a picture I sent to blogger post?

I want to apologize

Really, I want to apologize. I have been MIA from most of my dear friends' blogs. It isn't that I am upset, it is that life suddenly took over and something had to give. I have managed to make my posts a little more regular, but have fallen SO far behind on my favorite reads. (That DAMN Facebook hasn't helped either) I am VERY happy to report, Madison got her report card yesterday. That means 9 WEEKS LEFT! Oh happy day (to come in 9 weeks) I am so ready. I still love reading your blogs and will pick up soon. Although, I am totally afraid to open my Google Reader. I am afraid it will implode with all of the new messages. It has been a long time.

Sleep, is so important to me and I was missing so much..

blogging break

I think I am going to take a blogging break. (although, it probably won't last long) I feel like my life is in chaos right now. I think I should wrap up some of the 50 projects I have going on and if I take this off the list (for a very short time) maybe I can get them done.

Here is a question to leave you with.

Do ever (a good portion of this is the mom syndrome, but anyone could suffer from it) feel like you start a project, are able to spend just enough time on it to really get it going, only to be pulled away from it, then by the time you get back to it, you pretty much have to start all over? (can you say RUN-on and on and on sentence?) OR do you start projects, get pulled away and then start another one before you get back to finishing the first one, so you have multiple messes going at once?

It is super annoying. It frustrates me to see those undone projects and know I need to finish them, but don't have the time.

My wish list left for the kitchen/1st floor: (which if I got these, I could finish the kitchen and then maybe have the time to blog again)

• a working toilet. It scares me to have the girls going up and down those stairs to use the bathroom. We don't usually go upstairs as much and I would hate for them to fall.
• Counter tops. Oh to be able to set a glass on something other than the oven.
• DISHWASHER...enough said
• kitchen sink
• maid and a chef (oh wait, how did those get slipped in there!)

Keep checking back, because I will probably get bored and post in a few days.

I wanted to be part of the in crowd...

I just love going to some of my favorite blogs and seeing these wicked cute backgrounds. I decided I need one too. I am not completely sold on this one, but love how easy it is to change them. I just don't like the banner with it. Maybe I need a new header. Oh wait, that would mean taking pictures of the girls and I haven't done that in...Weeks. Oh well, I guess I have to live with it for a while. Maybe soon.

Here is a something I have been toying with. I would LOVE your opinion. Here goes.

I am thinking of going back to take some college classes. The thing I am not so sure about is I would want to take them at the community college down the street. The classes I would want to take (photography ones) are classes working towards an associate degree. Weird huh? I already have a bachelors degree. Is that weird to go back for an associate degree? (If/when I decide I can handle a photography business, I really want to know how to completely use my camera. That requires taking these classes. I don't even know if you can take classes without working towards a degree, iewith all the English, math and what not.) Anyway, I am in the VERY beginning stages of researching this and thought I would talk to people who know SO MUCH more than me. Okay, that is your cue to go comment away.