* I’m blogging from my ipad for the first time. We will see if I’m capable of such a thing!

* We started off our year with Daniel getting strep throat and then I was next in line. It’s the total pits and I wish adults could recover as fast a kids!

*Daniel earned his purple belt in karate in December. He’s super proud and really enjoying karate.

* I might should not own up to the fact that I’m a soap fan, but I am and I’m sad that One Life to Live had their last episode Friday! I’ve watched that show my entire life {ratting you out there too, Momma } and it’s been my one that I’ve DVR’d since Daniel was born. It’s always been my kid naptime show. No more…

* Daniel got a few gift cards for his birthday and Christmas and was dying to spend them after Christmas. He had $65 and managed to buy $100 worth of Legos and a new game for his DS. That’s my bargain shopper! He was so excited to get 2 huge Lego sets for half off.

*Luke was also excited to use his gift cards… for what else? Batman, of course. They now make Batman legos. After Christmas. Guess who wants them all?

* We went to Golden Corral last night {we haven’t been in ages} and they now have a chocolate fountain that my kiddos thought was the best thing ever. There was ridiculous amounts of chocolate on our children and their plates!
Chocolate covered strawberries for my strawberry lover

*I need a lot more practice on this ipad blogging thing. I’m too used to my computer.

* Have I mentioned my love of teacher blogs? Since I got my new job they are saving me with there awesome activities! That and teacherspayteachers.com.

* Luke is really into The Magic Treehouse books right now. I thought he might want to read a chapter book and I was right. He is loving them. I had book 1 at school, so he wrote me a note the other day to put with my school things, so that I would bring the book home for him.

*That’s all for now!

I’ve never let my blog sit so long without an update!

It has been so crazy~busy around here! I want to keep up my blog, because I love looking back and seeing what we were doing at certain points in our lives.

The major reason that I have not been around this {pretty, fall~ thanks to Dan} blog is that my hours at my new job were doubled! Awesome for me, but not the ole’ bloggy. I now have a full morning of reading groups and 3 afternoon math groups.

Daniel’s karate, Luke’s soccer, and my poor hubby’s ankle have also kept things busy around these parts.

I’m definitely having to adjust to this working mom thing. I’m not full-time, but pretty close and then there is so much planning, since this is my first year doing this!

My poor printer and google search bar are exhausted. And can I give another shout out to teacher blogs. Love you! They have been so helpful.

Number 9 AKA Luke is LOVING soccer. He can’t wait until his soccer games and plays really hard and cheers on his teammates when he is taking a break. He’s scored several goals including 2 for the other team Thursday. J How dare they switch which goal is ours with a bunch of 4 year olds!

Dan is hanging in there and still coaching on crutches.

You can see him in the background of the picture above.

He’s scheduled for another Dr. appointment Monday for his ankle. He’s made some progress, but not a lot. Still no weight on it yet and we’re almost at one month since he hurt it. Poor guy is SO tired of the crutches and being unable to walk on his foot.

Daniel had a program last week. It was called Educations Rocks and it was cute. He had a speaking part. The picture quality is awful, I just had my cell phone and was a mile away from him.

He also started riding the bus last week. He thinks it’s the greatest thing (thank goodness). I was having to do so much rushing around to get the kids after work, that this has worked out just great! They let him off right in front of the house, since we live on a busy road. We swore we would try not to do the bus with the kids, but this bus driver runs a tight ship, so I feel better about it! He has a couple of really good buddies on the bus, so that really helps.

I’m going to really try to blog just little bits through the week, that way it’s not such a daunting task! I want to be able to remember this crazy time in our lives. This time where Simply Cindy’s life is a little less simple!

I kept a journal most of my growing up years and kept up with all kinds of crazy things there. Now as an adult I have this public form of a journal Simply Cindy. I try to keep it updated.  I want to be able to look back years from now and be able to remember little details of my life.

Dan kept a journal some growing up as well. And now he has his platform over at Church and Tea where he is able to write down his thoughts and experiences.

Well, last Sunday as I was sitting in the worship service, I look over and see Daniel concentrating very hard. He had his baggie full of paper and crayons and was writing away. When he was done, he let me read what he wrote.

Here’s the translation if needed:
April 11,2010
At Disney World we are going to the Barnstormer. And we might go to the Lego Store and buy a pack. And we are going to eat dinner with Pooh (the Crystal Palace). By Daniel

I love that he chose on his own to journal about his excitement over our Disney trip (even though maybe he should have been listening to his Daddy ).

I think journaling might run in our family…. and a love for Disney World. J

It’s really him, I promise. This is what he looks like through a camera phone. And we were only 2 rows back!!! We had 14^th row seats, which we were super excited about and when we got there, we saw that the stage jutted out right beside where we were sitting. We had the best seats ever, it was great!

Miranda Lambert opened for him and she was really good too. Super spunky. Here she is:

It’s really her, I promise.

We also took a picture of ourselves… out… without children… at a concert…

It’s really us, I promise.

Yep, my next step after pressing post here is to go find a camera.

Then maybe I will have more to blog about.

Or not.

1. Reading
   

   

   I love reading. Books, blogs, magazines… I love it all. I just finished up the Twilight series which I became obsessed with.
   Now I want to read The New Six-Point Plan for Raising Happy, Healthy Children by John Rosemond. I recently read his book Making the Terrible Twos Terrific and loved it. He’s a great Christian parenting author.
   I also really love to read to the kids in my class and my two boys. And they in turn love reading too.
   

2. Road Trips
   

   

   I love, love, love to travel. I’m always wanting to go somewhere. We went to Disney World for our big vacation last year and had the best time. This year Dan and I are going on a cruise and I am so excited!!

    

3. Rainy Days
   

   

   I love a rainy day…. If I get to stay home. And even better if I get to stay home in my pajamas and possibly lounge around in bed and watch TV. Lazy, much?

    

4. Restaurants
   

   

   I love going out to eat. It’s almost like a little mini vacation. Yummy food that I did not have to prepare and someone cleans up for me! Sounds great. J

    

5. Roaming around Target or Old Navy
   

   

   I love roaming around (mostly) Target and seeing what they have. I don’t always have to buy something, but they have such cute stuff and I love browsing.

    

6. Roast in the crockpot
   

   

   One of my favorite meals. So yummy and so easy. J

    

7. Resting with Dan in the evenings
   

   

   This is one of my most favorite things to do. We get the kids in bed, pop popcorn and watch our TiVoed shows together. It’s *almost* like a mini date.

    

8. Recording shows on TiVo
   

   

   #7 led me to #8. I love, love my TiVo and am always recording stuff to watch. I would probably never see anything if it weren’t for my TiVo. And wouldn’t that be a shame?

    

9. Rearranging Furniture
   

   

   I’ve gotten somewhat better about this, but I’m always wanting a change. Living room furniture is the worst… and my classroom at school… and the boys’ rooms…

    

10. Red Velvet Cake
    

    

    Mmmm….. my 3^rd food related item. I love red velvet cake. So does D3. He has requested it for his birthday cake for two years in a row now. That totally cracks me up- what can I say? He has great taste.

Alright, so I might have cheated by not giving just one word answers, but I should get creativity points. 

If anyone that reads my humble little blog would like a letter, just let me know. I promise no Qs or Xs.

And it’s much too late to bring up the fact the B ran into the living room on Christmas morning, jumped on his tricycle and refused to open any presents.

I wouldn’t want to bore anyone with Christmas in January.

I also let the new year pass me by as I was out of town. I really wanted to do one of those look back on 2008 posts, where I would talk about the fact that last February B and I got the flu (and he got pink eye, an ear infection, and strep throat), he was so miserable!

I would have also mentioned the fact that B started walking last year.

I probably would also have talked about the fact that D3 graduated preschool.

And then we went on summer vacation to Disney World and had possibly the best vacation ever.

I know I would have mentioned the big occasion of my first born going to Kindergarten. I’m still not sure how he is old enough for that!

I might have mentioned that B finally gave up his pacis this year also.

I would have ended that post saying something along the lines of how 2008 has been a big year at our house, as most are with little ones. And that time tends to fly too quickly when you have kids at home.

Too bad I was out of town and couldn’t share those posts.

Well, it’s been one month since my fabulous husband gave me this blog for my birthday.

Here are five things I’ve learned in my five week blogging adventure.

1. I love a comment. I had heard that comments were bloggy crack.  I don’t know if they are that addictive, but comments are great.  I try to comment a lot more on the blogs that I read too. It’s nice to know someone’s reading what you wrote.
   I tend to click, click, click and then not even know how I ended up on someone’s blog. Do you do this? I don’t know if I should preface my comment with how I found the blog or just leave a comment? Usually I just comment away. They probably wonder who in the heck I am. J
2. Google Analytics is really cool.  It tells you all sorts of things about your blog.  Like the fact that a bunch of people apparently search the words “Our week in three words.”
3. I love Google Reader.  I guess I’m into google all of a sudden?  I dunno. But it makes keeping up with the blogs that you follow so much easier. Bloglines is good too, but I like Google Reader better.
4. I sometimes have a hard time coming up with a good title. Big Mama is the queen of awesome titles- if there were such a queen. Her titles are so creative.
5. I have found yet another way to avoid housework.

She has such a sweet blog. I’m supposed to list six things about myself. So, here comes the randomness….

1. I LOVE to go on vacation. I’m constantly wanting to plan a trip somewhere. We went to Disney this summer, which is one of our favorite places on earth. And I’m dying to go somewhere again already. Dan and I are in the middle of planning our anniversary get away and our cruise next summer to celebrate his graduation!!
   
2. I hate sitting in traffic. Oh my goodness, my good side does not come out in sit-still traffic. Once Dan clicked through his cell phone to the games screen and handed it over to me in traffic. I didn’t even recognize I was being pacified like a kid for a minute.
   
3. I detest the lunchable. I seriously went off on a 30 minute tangent the other night about my disdain for the lunchable. Now, deep theological matters I’m still trying to work out within myself, but the lunchable… I know I can’t stand.
   
4. I love school supplies, paper, organizers… anything like that. If I would let myself, I could just go nuts in paper stores, party stores, The Container store. I don’t know why, but I just LOVE it. You’d think I’d be more organized.
   
5. I am such a visual learner that it’s ridiculous. If there’s not a picture involved, I have a hard time staying interested. J Hence my pictures with each of my random things.
   
6. I say “seriously” entirely too much. The other night the kids and I were waiting on my husband to join us at the dinner table for prayer. We looked over to see Dan making a pitcher of sweet tea and my five-year-old says (in his best Chandler Bing voice, even though he has no idea who that is) “Seriously. You HAVE to do that right now?” I thought I would die, hearing my voice coming out of my child’s mouth.

   

Thanks so much Dan for being a great husband and father and for taking time out of your busy schedule to make something so thoughtful for me!! I love you!!