Tidbits to Remember

So JD asked me tonight what I was doing and if I was posting on the blog. I knew I would really regret letting it slip that I had created it. I mean, why would I be posting when I haven't done so since I created the thing? But then the guilt started to get to me, and I started thinking about the things I want to remember that I will inevitably forget along with the thousands of other things, so here I am. Some random recent happenings that I want to remember:

-Allie told Stacey (Simeone) the other day that she did NOT want to make an idol out of her lovey!!

-Kharis got picked to be the only one out of both second grade classes to recite all of Luke 2:8-20 in their school's annual Lessons and Carols concert. She ROCKED. IT. I wish I could express it better, but I don't know how. She was really and truly the best one up there, the only one who you could understand who wasn't reading it, and she didn't hesitate, falter, or stumble, and she looked like she spoke in front of 500 people everyday. I was so proud I couldn't stand it.

-The first morning after we put our Christmas tree up this year I found Ryah and Adon laying under it together just gazing up in sort of wonder. SO cute.

-We went to Lynn and Carol's church's "Journey to Bethlehem" tonight, and the kids just loved it. There were lots of real animals there and the llama was a particularly big hit as well as the goats. But the lady doing real pottery had Kharis and Allie's undivided attention.

-The last couple of nights when JD wasn't home to hug and kiss the girls good night I promised them that when he got home I would send him up to kiss them. After a brief pause, Ryah says "and hug too?"

-Ryah is in just that dang cute phase where most anything she does is adorable. She has apparently learned that JD and others think her skinny jeans are really cute on her, but she doesn't know which ones they are. So every time we put on jeans she says "are dese my skinny jeans?" And she calls the pink glow in the dark skeleton pjs I bought her for Halloween her "jack and blues," we don't know why. But it's really cute.

-All three of the girls have busied themselves for long periods of time ever since we got out the nativity playing with it together. I don't know exactly what they are doing with it, but I always love to see how they have rearranged it.

All for now! Soon (what?! ha!) I will try and get a picture up here!

This Feels Silly, But Then Lots of Things Do

So I have been thinking about this blog for at least 4 years, ever since the blog craze of 2006 hit, and maybe a little before. But I have this thing, that I think a lot of people have, with the whole social media concept. Texting, facebook, email, blogging, etc etc. On one hand I love it-it does simplify my life in a lot of ways. But on the other, I sort of hate it. I have very few real conversations with anyone outside my immediate family these days (such conversations as they are-realize I spend most of my day with a 2 year old and an 8 month old:)) Because it seems like such a chore to even pick up the phone and have to have small talk with somebody! I would rather just bypass all that and text them. And then there is also the whole vague feeling of, since it's so easy to keep up with everyone I have ever seen in my entire conscious life, am I supposed to do so? And finally, the classic mental turmoil over why does twitter and facebook make me feel like everyone needs to know what I am having for breakfast? So I have been a bit loathe to jump in. But, despite the inner debate, here I am. I think I finally feel that there is a worthwhile purpose to it: keeping a little bit of track on my family's life. I hope it serves this purpose (and maybe some others too; we will see) but only time will tell. Happy Blogging?