Update
Wowza, thanks to everyone for the emails. We are, indeed, still here in the HouseinProgress, though life has been in fast forward for the past few months.
Everything is fine. Well, there were a few bumps in health and logistics, but everything turned out fine.
Finding that having a three year old who gave up her nap for good in January, increasing the hours of our respective work commitments outside of the house, and trying to stay on top of our volunteer activities put a bit of a crimp in our blogging. That and the fact that our WYSIWYG is broken and I am tired of HTML.
Plus, well, to tell the truth, there is SO MUCH MORE that I want to write about these days, outside of house and home that is going on right now. So, I'm playing with the idea of another blog as a catch all to the things I'd like to journal but feel I cannot give too much of a voice to on our houseblog. (Wouldn't want to bore the house-people to tears. I'll partition off that boring life stuff elsewhere.)
Therefore, I have a backlog of photos and scans and stories and things to share about the house...and everything else that is going on right now. Including some exciting things that we can't exactly talk about yet. Um, so.
That means I can just post some recent photos of life around here, but they aren't necessarily of the house. If you are bored by silly pics of child in house, click away! FAST!!!
(You've been warned.) Some January jamming on Mommy's Strumstick. Mike from Foxcroft would be so proud. :)
During a freezing February, we introduced Grace to The Red Balloon. (And My Neighbor Totoro!)
Grace practicing her yoga-karate-weight lifting during March while I took some photos at our local park. (We're helping to start a fundraising campaign for new playground equipment.) Why, yes, she IS in the 98th percentile for her height. Does this surprise anyone? Finally, in early April, Grace did her own kitty cat make-up before popping up with breakfast in bed for me on my birthday.
P.S. For those of you who didn't catch Dick Gordon's "The Story" in February, and his piece about building a dream house? It's awesome.
P.S. And if you haven't heard Susan Boyle's recording (her only one!) from 1999, "Cry Me A River"? You need to hear it and realize that she is the real deal. She did it for a local school's charity fundraiser. I love it when real life is better than a movie script. :)
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Welcome Back! So great to find a new post. I look forward to hearing all the things you have to share (house related and otherwise). Please know: you have been missed.
Posted by: elise | April 16, 2009 8:06 PM
Glad to have you back-- was beginning to get seriously worried. Perhaps the new news has to do with another addition to the household? Wouldn't that be swell?!
Posted by: Dani Ascarelli | April 16, 2009 9:10 PM
I LOVE those pjs! Doreen showed me some of these pictures today and I thought they were so cute!
Posted by: Sarah | April 16, 2009 10:42 PM
Nice to hear your voice! Lucy loves the Red Balloon too. How fun that Grace is watching it while holding the real deal!
Posted by: Ann Boyd | April 16, 2009 10:54 PM
I AM so proud of you! That is a cool instrument and one I hadn't seen before. One of the great dangers of the lap dulcimer is that in my case it occasionally flies off my lap; thankfully no children have ever been hit by it.
I was just thinking of you and Aaron, we will play at Uptown Bill's tomorrow night, for the first time since you were here. The music columnist for local paper called us "timeless (and delightfully witless)" We're taking it as a compliment!
-Mike
Posted by: Mike | April 17, 2009 11:38 AM
Great thing about blogging? Disappear for a few months and totally random strangers who've been reading your blog for five years but whom you've never met start praying for you. Perhaps I need to start a blog. ; ) So glad all is well.
Posted by: Emi | April 17, 2009 5:49 PM
Welcome back! You were missed!
My daughter Still loves Totoro! ( She is 8) So much wonderful anime for kids out there.
Again- welcome back.
Posted by: C | April 29, 2009 9:14 PM
Yes, giving up the nap is rough. We used to get so much done during our daughter's nap and now that the younger one is phasing out of hers it's the 45 minute remodeling sprint instead!
Posted by: Allison | April 30, 2009 6:39 PM
I'm glad I stumbled upon your site today. We're in the process of doing something similar with how to build house, but instead of remodeling, we're starting from scratch. Thanks for all the great pointers!
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