Quick Take Friday
I’m still busy working on my redesign and migration to WordPress. I’m hoping to be live by June 10th with an extra special give away to celebrate. Posting will continue to be light but in the meantime here are my 7 quick takes for Friday.
1.) Tomorrow we leave to spend a week in Michigan visiting my parents. I’m very excited to get back to my old stomping grounds and in particular to visit some old high school friends. I’ve been away from Michigan just long enough that it no longer feels like home, but more like a dream I had a long time ago. In many ways familiar and yet in other ways a strange and unfamiliar place.
2.) Summer has started with a bang and my calendar is filling up faster than a bar giving away free beer. This is the first time since I was a young child that summer feels, well, like summer. Special trips to take, fun parties to attend, camps to go to, etc. The weather has been beautiful and I’m relishing living in Texas. Ask me again in August though, when the heat is so bad that I’m begging for somebody to invent a roof for the Earth.
3.) This is the first summer that BOTH of my children will be attending “Nana Camp”. This means I will have an entire week alone, with my husband, at home. I have no idea how we will fill the time, but I expect excessive movie watching will be on the agenda. Oh, and staying up late for no other reason than we don’t have to get up early the next morning.
4.) Did I mention that I’m hoping to launch my redesign on June 10th with a special give away to celebrate?
5.) I have once again ventured into gardening this year. I know I swore up and down that I would never do this again and that if I did you were to stop me. However, I think I’ve made wiser choices this year. I’ve planted container tomatoes and green bell peppers. I’m thinking that these might do better in my South West facing patio. My expectations are really low and if I manage not to kill them by July 1st I’ll consider myself a success.
6.) I’m feeling obligated to say something about Jon&Kate. I never really watched the show except for perhaps a half a dozen times. First, they have eight kids. Eight kids would make anybody crazy . Eight kids are also expensive and I don’t begrudge her or Jon one minute putting their kids on TV. I also think it is silly to think that a marriage can withstand the strain of that many children and being on TV without some problems. The difference between their problems and our problems is that our problems are private. We all have times when we feel like kicking our spouse out of the house and never talking to them again, but those moments aren’t being viewed and judged by all of America. I hope they work it out – I truly do.
7.) I suspect Max is going to learn to swim before he learns to use the potty. Isn’t there something wrong with that? I was hoping he would at least be close to being potty trained by Nana camp, but at this point I’ll be glad if we’ve started the process by Christmas. Has anybody else had a little boy wait this long to use the potty? Max is 3 1/2 and won’t even sit on the potty. That is one seriously controlling 3 year old.
Thanks to Conversion Diary for the idea this week.
Max Learns To Fish
We spent the weekend at the lake house in east Texas. Max is still scared of swimming in the lake and so he spent most of his time fishing. A new hobby for him. He caught three fish. He was very serious about his fishing though and wanted to hit the water as early as 7:00 AM and was still sitting on the dock at 6:00 PM. David snapped this photo of Max as he sat on the dock. No further words are necessary.
I fall in love again and again looking into those eyes
Most Popular
As we head into the holiday weekend (here in the states) I thought I would list the most visited, stumbled upon, highest-traffic posts I’ve written. I’m sure you will be surprised, as I am, regarding which ones made the top 5. Here they are:
1.) Max’s First Kiss
I wrote this in August 2008 as part of Scribbit’s Write Away Contest. I have people read this post EVERY SINGLE DAY. It is hands down my most popular post.
2.) See Dick Fail His Class
This post was done in response to an article I had read about the Dallas ISD and their new grading policy. Once again, I have people read this post EVERY DAY and still get comments periodically. This is the one that surprises me the most.
3.) Barbie Versus Motherhood
I periodically post out on Shine.Yahoo. When this post hit that online magazine it was filled with people telling me I’m an idiot for worrying about a stupid doll. However, my personal blog readers – out here – are smart and really grasped what I was trying to say. It hit a chord because people keep coming back to it.
4.) Circle of Life
This was done in honor of Max’s birthday, but it really has more to do with my Grandfather passing away. This is also one of my personal favorites.
5.) Operation Pacifier Freedom
I think this is popular because people are always looking for ideas on how to get their kid to stop using the pacifier. I will say that Max has been “paci-free” for about 4 months now with no signs of going back. I could not be more thrilled.
Happy reading and I will meet you all back here on Tuesday. Have a great holiday weekend.
