iPhone Love

I've been determined to get my blog posts rolling this week.  On Monday, I was out of the office on a press check for work, but while riding back I made a list of all the blog posts I could write this week.  So I've been pulling from that.

However, I left my dear iPhone at home today.  Which contains my lists, but more importantly, my pictures.  So today, I was going to tell you about this perfect day that we had over the weekend and share all the pictures...but no iPhone.

So instead, I'll just tell you that I'm sad I left my phone at home.  It's like a piece of me is missing really.  Oh how did I ever survive without you iPhone?

Tomorrow, I'll tell you about my perfect day.

Writer's Block...or Something

As I'm sitting at work texting my sister a boat load of recent pictures of my kids...I realize I haven't blogged in awhile.

No, that's not true...I didn't just realize it, I've known it for much longer than just this afternoon.  I've been having trouble with the writing.  I have so much to write about, but I can't seem to organize it into a blog post, or twenty.

While I'm jogging, I think of what I should blog about.  I have so many things I want to write about.  Then I get to the house and life speeds right by until I'm in a zombie like state on the couch at 9:30.  Then I just don't have the energy.  I can't carry myself to the computer and spit something out because I can't get it to flow from my head to my fingers.  It's just this jumbled assortment of words and stories and thoughts all crashing into one other in my head. 

So you'll just have to bare with me.  Or is it bear with me?  I'm never sure about that one.  I know that bare means like naked, but bear is a furry deadly animal.  See what I'm talking about?  That's what is happening in my head right now.  So I wouldn't call it writer's block, I'd just call it jumbled craziness.

Before I spew anymore insanity, I'll just get to my point.  I don't have one.  But here are pictures of the kids...that's what you're waiting for anyway...

Valentine's Day 2012.  Freddie is Sick, that's why he looks miserable.



Valentine's Day 2012.  That's not empty space next to Ainsley, open your eyes...that is Flynn Rider!  Ainsley goes nowhere without him!




LOVE this pic.  Especially because it will make Uncle Cameron lose his mind.  Hahaha!  But mostly because he is so darn cute - Freddie, not Cameron :)




Mom, stop, the flash is too bright.



Did you know Crayola makes markers that write on windows?

Aren't we supposed to teach the kids to not write on things like walls and windows?  Kind of confusing Crayola!  Sorry about the red eye.  Couldn't figure out Instagram.

Freddie likes driving the fire truck at the park.

Again...this kid is freaking adorable.  Clif and I are not that cute, how did this happen?

And beautiful!  Love that face.

This was my attempt at a cutesy posed picture.  Call my mother if you want better pics...I never claimed to be a photographer.

Bubble faces!

I could look at this picture all day.

This one too.  And they're sitting on a turtle, so it's even awesomer.  Is that a word?  Not according to spellcheck...but my blog, my words.  Awesomer is a word at The Story of Us.

I Know, I Know

I haven't posted in a week.  I think I needed a break.  If you have a blog then you know how all consuming keeping up with it can be.  You worry that if you don't post, you'll lose your readers.  You worry that if you do post, your readers won't like it.  You become obsessed with things like hashtags and page views and Klout and followers.  I just needed a breather.  I haven't read any blogs in a week.  I haven't been on twitter in a week - okay, maybe I was on twitter a little, but hardly. 

If you don't have a blog, then let me explain it.

Every moment of every day I am thinking, "How do I turn this into a blog post?"  Examples?  Okay...
-Freddie says "a beet" for feet and he either says it funny like "Hey, look I  have feet, isn't that funny?!?!?" or very sad like "Oh my goodness, please take this blanket off my feet before they suffocate."  Do I put a funny or touching spin on that?
-Ainsley often talks like she's a grown up.  Pulling out words like "Ridiculous," "Flattering," "Apparently," "Absolutely."  Do I save all these little stories up and do one According to Ainsley post or do I spread them out over the next month?

So you see, blogging sometimes takes over my life.  Other than viewing every action as a possible blog post, I also spend obscene amounts of time at work reading and commenting on other blogs.  I'm pretty sure that's not why they pay me.

I needed a break.  I needed to get back to just actually being present in the moment that Freddie cries because his socks are strangling his feet or Ainsley says something like "Mommy, it is absolutely ridiculous that you are apparently flattered by that!"

But look, I went and blogged about it.  Shame on me.