04-14-11

Happy birthday dear Xander, happy birthday to you! You are officially a teenager now! Too bad you felt too bad to go to school today and didn’t want to take the tissue out of your nose for photos. But nice you could find energy to get dressed to go out to Coldstone. Hope your teenage years hold more promise than this first day!

04-13-11

Today we hit another hurdle with buying our next rental house. It doesn’t seem like it should take this long or be this difficult.

Today I attended an insomnia webinar. It doesn’t seem that long ago that I could sleep anytime anywhere.

Today Anastasia got home from track practice shortly after I got home from work. It seems like along time ago when I was a middle schooler with boyfriends, straight A’s to worry about, and parents to resent and ignore.

And life just keeps rolling along…

04-12-11

Today was a travelling day, to Aberdeen and back.

I hate visiting my cache alone, but it is in dire need of maintenance, so I stopped. I had trouble opening the ammo can, but I cleaned out the unwanted loot, added more signature item plastic cameras, swapped out the information about the Toledo statues, took some photos and rehid the cache.

So Dominic Gospodor, the eccentric millionaire who installed the statues, died last year. He reportedly wrote in his will that upon his death a nonprofit organization had to be found to take over ownership of the monuments. But he also reportedly left no money to maintain them, or even to pay for the electricity that lights them at night.

Happy trails…

04-11-11

I started buying red onions, after a co-worker raved about how good they are.

But that doesn’t mean that Brue started cooking with them. Abandoned and forlorn, they started sprouting in the produce bin.

Tonight’s meal was from the under $5 website, Chicken Wraps with Balsam-melized Red Onions. We all agreed that it is a keeper.

04-10-11

Playing with light. Not very well, plenty of room for improvement. Ice cream sundaes at home for dessert tonight instead of Dairy Queen, then a quick photo shoot. Winding down from the weekend. Not quite motivated to tackle the last thing on my to do list. Looking forward to snuggling into bed.

04-09-11

Having a blog is a great way to get at least a photo a day. Taking a photography class is a great way to get 75 photos a day. So many choices, just one for the blog…

Focusing on blessings rather than annoyances today:

Grateful to jog the lake, have another chance at a better scenery photo, and spend some time outdoors today.

Grateful to have made an offer on another property, with decisions rather obvious. Grateful that God multiplied my time today; I got more done than I set out to, including sitting on the porch enjoying a book.

Grateful to finally get another family photo, even if I haven't figured out my new camera and it’s not a good hair day for me. And that the kids went through old scrapbooks and we laughed about memories.

And still another day of the weekend left!

04-08-11

Happy to have made it to another Friday, wishing my life was just a little bit different.

That I didn’t have to nag Xander to get off the couch.

That Anastasia would participate in our family more and not be so sneaky.

That dinner would be a sit down affair instead of a hodgepodge.

That I felt like I had a restful weekend ahead instead of two days to scurry at getting caught up on life.

That the sun would stay awhile instead of such a fleeting gift.

That sugar didn’t have such a strong hold on me.

Here’s my landscape photo. Also wishing it was a little bit different.