Sometimes...

Sometimes you mean what you say and sometimes you say what you mean, right? Well obviously I haven't meant what I said by taking our blog private by now, but I plan to this weekend.

It has been a rough week for me, both emotionally and physically (not promising any correct spelling here). Jordan is doing so much better, but I am a mess. He is no longer contagious with his crazy rash, but I am on a hormonal roller-coster. I sure hope that menopause is better than this. Otherwise I think Duane will want to trade me in on a new "cash for clunkers" deal that there may be by then! Having to take homones and working with family/toddler issues here was my day today:

Jordan and I went to Costco, where I told him that (just as in every parking lot) he has to hold a hand because there are cars. I guess I should have specified, knowing that he is a smart-aleck like me, he would call me on my lack of details and he said "I will hold my own hand". At which point in time he preceeded to hold his own hand (picture the Von Traps in Sound of Music singing the goodnight song) and tried to do everything by himself. All day long everywhere we went he just held his "own-hand". It was hilarious!

Every day he is more and more independent, just like I am but that is what is so hard! What I love is that in the middle of everything today he just ran up to me for no reason and said "I just love you so much". Ok, that makes everything worth while! He is the best, smartest, everything kid...

I guess my question to the universe tonight is how do you mother a child that is just like you, but smarter? He is the best thing I will ever do in my life, and at the same time, the most challenging thing I will ever need to overcome. I guess that is my challenge and my ultimate accomplishment.

Hello..is it me you're looking for?

Ok, so I know I said I was taking our blog private in April. I had high hopes that Duane and I would come to an agreement on our new family website and that it would be up and running by now.

Guess what, it's difficult to get 2 people as different but as similar as we are to decide on what we should do.

In terms that some people will understand, take 2 chefs who each have a different role; one being a pastry chef and one being a master chef, who both want the same end result (great food, happy customers) but have 2 different ideas of what that is.

Enter Duane and I. Duane has 14 years more experience than I do at web programming, but I have the "creative - fluffy - girly - aesthetic" side that he (to be quite honest) doesn't.

In some ways we are 2 wrongs making a right. At some point soon expect to see an invite/direction to our family website. For now though, I am going to take this site private and invite all of you who are our true friends to be a part of it. I will start updating it on a usual (probably weekly basis).

Once we get all of the technical end of things worked out, it will be great. If you have had enough patience to still be following this blog, Congrats!

I'm going to give it a week: send me your info (if I don't already have it) and I'll include you on my "invite" to our new private blog.

Thanks, and I appreciate all of our close friends!