Without offering excuses, but to give you a peek into the (positive) mayhem that is my life, here are a few of the reasons you haven’t seen a ton of depth here recently:
* lots of people in & out of my house: new furnace, counters, carpet, appliances, bathroom tile, paint, blah, blah, blah. It is unbelievably time consuming to pull your house from the late ’90’s into today!
* a break in the water main. Good timing.
* fast and furious editing on a book proposal. I LOVE it, but it doesn’t leave a lot of leisure time on the table.
* a blog re-work is in the works, which means I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog lately, you just can’t see it yet. Maybe by the end of the year?
* iPhoto trouble. It’s very hard for me to admit this, even to myself, but I accidentally deleted all 13,000+ photos I had on iPhoto. They were all cataloged by child, place, date. It was beautiful. Since that day I’ve had a difficult time taking photos and haven’t loaded a single one on to iPhoto. Blogging isn’t nearly as fun without the photos. I’m just sick about it. And, yes, I’ve already been to the Apple store for help. I think they wanted to roll their eyes, but they just kindly told me I was out of luck. Stupid.
* 3 boys in 3 schools and difficulty saying ‘no’ to volunteering in any of them.
* coaching a boys basketball team which, again, I LOVE, but any leisure time left after the book proposal editing is pretty much eaten up by planning plays, practices, and game rotations.
* friends. Of all of the things I’ll jettison to clear my schedule, friends aren’t one of them.
But you’re my friends, too–more depth here soon, I promise!
Give yourself a break. Take a deep breath, pour a nice glass of wine or a snooty beer, and forgive yourself about the iPhoto. I'd like to see the guys at Apple plan and host a second grade Halloween party en Espanol!
Oh my gosh. Are the photos backed up somewhere (just not organized)? Or are they GONE gone?! The rest of it is good busy (OK, except the water main). Good luck with it all.
Oh my gosh. Are the photos backed up somewhere (just not organized)? Or are they GONE gone?! The rest of it is good busy (OK, except the water main). Good luck with it all.
I've been scarce too. My kids have all suddenly doubled their need for taxi-cab Mom. And my office has gotten busier. I like to soothe myself with, "a busy life is a full life." Ah, yes!
My heart absolutely sank when I read of the iphoto trouble. I'm honestly not sure how I would handle that.
And I'm also not sure how I'll handle life when it gets any busier than having two preschoolers here at home with me all day. I'm not sure how you handle it all, but blessings and hugs to you along the way.
And please start making and posting photos again soon 🙂
I have 6000+ pictures on a hard drive that died. The apple store told me they could fix it for $100 but they needed to send the hard drive back to apple. I said no and hung on to my computer very tightly. Then once we got here, I tried again at a more savvy computer fix-it place and they told me they could fix it for free but still had to keep the drive or fix it for $400 and I could keep the drive. I chose the expensive option…and hung on to the drive hoping someday someone might be able to retrieve my pictures. And I have my laptop working again. SO SAD!
Can you send me pics of all your house projects?? How fun and I'm sad I'm missing it, and our annual spaghetti/dessert swap…and YOU. How are YOU (besides busy)??