on 300 posts, and blogger's block...

This is the 300th post I have made on this blog.

I haven't been around here much...I haven't written on my blog, and I haven't really kept up on the blogs I normally read. I'm not really sure why. Things in my life have been just as happy/sad and just as over/under whelming as they always are...but I haven't felt the urge to write about it.

I'd love to say that I've been off accomplishing incredible, amazing, life changing things...but I haven't. I've read some books, cooked some meals, gone to some meetings, cleaned some house, loved some kids. I've worked too little and worried too much. I've been pleased with myself in some ways, incredibly annoyed at myself in others. Nothing really new.

I miss the process of thinking of things to write, however. And I miss that small sense of accomplishment in writing a little something that sounds like me. So, I am back.



Quote of the week:

"Come what may, and love it."

--Joseph B. Wirthlin

quote of the week...

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

—Henry Ellis

wait--so there's a month between September and November?

I have looked high and low...in the back of my kids' closets, behind the 50 pound bags of rice down in the food storage room, and even under the batteries in the junk drawer in my kitchen...but I cannot find October. I've completely misplaced it.

why I am still happily married...

Once The Hubby sent me a text that said, "Sorry, I was wrong."

It was over some insignificant thing, like what we needed at the store or when one of the kids would be ready to be picked up.

I saved that text.

And now, on days when he is...ummm...shall we say...hard to love?

I read that text. And pretend he just sent it.

quote of the week...

"Normal day, let me be aware of the treasure you are. Let me learn from you, love you, and bless you before you depart. Let me not pass you by in quest of some rare and perfect tomorrow. Let me hold you while I may."

--Mary Jean Iron

quote of the week...

"What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other?"


--George Eliot

quote of the week...

"Cynicism is an intellectual cop-out, a crutch for a withered soul, a thin excuse for inaction."

--Jeffery R. Holland