...please use your inside voice...

Wow, its been a long time since I've updated. I always start with the intention of blogging each day, maybe a few times a week, but then I forget. Or life happens. Sometimes its things I just don't want to share, as if those reading will look and me and make fun. But in all honesty, I blog for me, only me, and this I need to remember.

I always get a bit sad when christmas is over. I just love christmas. By the time the new year rolls around I'm curled up in a ball in some corner with silent tears running down my face. But it will come again so I'm pushing past, onward and outward.

The kittens are 10 weeks old now and we just gave one away yesterday. That leaves 3 more. We really got attached to these little guys and it is SO HARD this time. Hard for us and hard for the kitties too. One of them has been crying for days now for his lost brother. My heart just breaks. Right now she is searching for him, calling his name, searching each corner, looking for a lost ball of fur. Can you die from a broken heart?

My kids have been doing fabulous. Had orientation at the high school for my oldest, and orientation at the middle school is coming up for his brother. Gosh, I have a child going into high school. I wonder if I can pass for his sister? The kids are just growing up... I always heard everyone say to enjoy it while you can but I never really understood it... until I look and time has just slipped by. Amazing.

Anywho, I finally put the kids school pictures in frames. Now I just need to get moving on other things. Procrastination.

I read a few good books. Read the Twilight series. Loved the first three, the last one left me restless. I ended up staying up all night and rewrote the book (in a sort of haphazard outline form) and changed the direction the story went. So, for me, the story in the book is MY story. After I wrote it all out, I could finally sleep. Something about the original left me... hmm, whats the best word... well I thought the book was stupid so it just didn't pan out for me.

Read Stephenie Meyer's next book, The Host. That had me a bit lost in the beginning, the middle was good, but then the whole end of the book was blah. The story was good, but like the last Twilight book, why does everything end up happy and perfect at the end. Life is not like that. Where were the challenges in the book? It all worked out just too perfect. But still, the story was a good one.

I've actually been reading a lot lately, and writing too. So easy to get lost with a book, or a story. Ahh, life is good.