There’s a blog out there, and I’ll be darned if I can remember which one it is—I looked, I promise—that uses something like “changing my header is cheaper than therapy” for it’s tag line.  (If you know which blog this is, would you please post it in the comments?  Then I’ll add a link!)  Whenever I read her blog, I think, “What a clever subtitle,” but now that I’ve actually changed my header, I beg to disagree.  Well, cheaper, maybe, but easier?  Arrghh.  For those of you out there, and there are loads of you, I know, for whom this whole HTML thing is a breeze, well, I bow down, because I have pulled out many, many a hair just trying to do S-I-M-P-L-E things.  I find it beyond frustrating.  This is one of the reasons I use Blogger—more time writing, less time figuring all this tech stuff out.  It’s also the reason I don’t have a lot of cool buttons—because by the time I got them all up, I’d be bald.

At any rate, if you’ve been around for awhile, you know that the former header was a photo of me with my kids, and my friend, Barbie, with her kids.  

This blog began as a joint collaboration, with both of us doing postings and updating recipes, quotes, etc. on the side.  As time went on, it worked out that I wrote the posts and Barbie did the other updates, as well as providing some very cute Wordless Wednesday photos and Hip Mom Interviews.  Barbie and I are also collaborating on a book about homeschooling and we decided that it makes more sense for us to spend our joint time working on the book than the blog.  (Who knew a blog would consume so much time?!)  So now you’ll just find me here.

Barbie will be busy homeschooling her youngest and developing more of the book.  But you can see her again, take heart.  Just begin praying that a publisher picks up our book and when that happens, she’ll be in there, too.

I’ve had a great time working on the blog with her and will certainly miss her input.  Thank you for everything you’ve done, Barbie!   And, if you’re a fan of the recipes and quotes she updated, well, sorry, I must admit that’s not my forte.  But I’m going to point you over to Kitchen Playground, because she posts great recipes, and is so far beyond where I will ever be in the food preparation area that I’m sure you’d much rather see what’s cooking in her kitchen than mine.  As for quotes, you’re on your own.  Google, I guess.  I’ll leave you with one of my favorites, for old times’ sake:

“As water reflects a face, so a man’s heart reflects the man.”

-Proverbs 27:19