It's been so long. I hardly know how to begin.
A great deal has happened to me since this blog was active and part of
the reason it trailed off was my uncertainty about whether to change
direction at this blog or start over with a new one. I've decided to start posting and work up to what I think I'm supposed
to write about and wait for the answer to become clear.
I also have given much thought to my boys blog names - Shark Boy and Bear. I don't want to use their real names but the play names don't feel right anymore. Not sure what to do about that.
Shark Boy is 10 now and in 5th grade, which I can hardly wrap my mind around. Sending him to 5th grade was harder for me than taking Bear to Kindergarten this week, which was an unexpected twist on the first day of school.
Speaking of Bear, he's a real pistol and I wish the teacher much luck. He's darling and sweet as can be but you really can't take your eyes off him. In the last year or so he's cut the tassels off my drapes, "cleaned" the outside of the door of my SUV with sandpaper, peed in the trash can in his room (you smell that long before you find it), used black Sharpie to write his name on his bedroom furniture, burned grocery receipts in the toaster, AND ETC. This is not an unsupervised child. He's like a curious cat and half the time he is genuinely surprised to be in trouble.
My grown daughter and my husband are also fine, in case there is anyone out there from before who still has this blog in their Reader!
In terms of the fluffy side of life, just allow me to say: PINTEREST. I tell Mr. Smith that the answer to everything is on Pinterest. (It's true.) I love it and have been doing a lot of the things I pin. We've designed a new deck and patio from my inspiration board, I've painted faux bois walls in the boys rooms, I've learned to make my own photo canvases and remove stains from anything. I know hundreds of things to do with pallets, Nutella, and Mason jars. I've also developed a serious nesting impulse and decided that next to nothing in my house really reflects me at this stage of my life, including the house itself. (Pinterest can be a bad thing.)
Whew! A post up after over a year!
Maybe I can do this again.
8 comments:
I've wondered how you were and hoped things were o.k. Glad to see you back.
Thank you so much! I hope I can keep going - I do miss the blog!
HURRAY!!!!!!
Hi Pamela!! Thanks for the welcome back!
Welcome home chicklet. We've just been sitting here waiting. ;)
My goodness, Bear sounds just like my two year old and I don't hold out much hope he's going to be different when he is five or six too. I just hope some day to channel all that curiosity for good (if it doesn't kill me to watch him 24/7).
Where did you go again? lol
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