spring review

I think it's rapidly slipping into summer, but since it's still April, we'll go with spring.

Spring around here brought a lot of sunshine (though we really haven't had a lack of it, it was just the nice warm kind with a cool breeze that we're trying to hold on to as the devilish heat and humidity beings to set in), beach days in Galveston, Easter, family visitors, building a new sandbox with Grandma, a weekend getaway to San Antonio, and the first of my 29th birthdays.

And in honor of the season that's supposed to represent new life or whatever, I'll have you know that in my blogging absence, I've been working hard these last few months growing baby #4, scheduled to arrive the first part of October.

I've been trying for a week to upload an ultrasound picture, but my scanner is putting up a fight. I gave up and reluctantly settled on this belly shot my sister keeps requesting instead. I'll get it fixed before we go in two weeks for my ultrasound to find out if Lydia or the boys get their wish on the gender...

a month and a half later...

I guess I'm back. If for no other reason, I knew if I didn't come back soon I never would.

I really didn't plan on leaving such an ambigious declaration about the blog then leaving it dormant for so long. I just hadn't decided what to do with it. The longer it took me to figure it out, the easier it was to just not think about it. Then I wanted to give it a makeover before I brought you all back. I haven't really gotten to that either, but enough putting it off...

Here's the deal. I've been on the fence for a while now about the blog. I guess I still am. It's been more than 2 1/2 years, and you know how it goes. In that time, my children have been left to fend for themselves on more than a few occassions (resulting in a flooded bathroom among other various household disasters) because I'm almost done on the computer. I have to say, it's been rather refreshing focusing my efforts on other things this last month.

Then again, my camera has a few hundred pictures waiting to be cleared off of it and organized because I've had no real motivation to do it. And other than those pictures, I have no real documentation of our lives since journaling has also taken a vacation. And well, we live in the middle of the country, away from almost everyone, and feel a bit out of touch.

So that brings me back, but not in a public blog. I thought about switching to another blog server. I thought about quitting the blog and switching to a monthly email newsletter. I've avoided the private blog as long as possible. They're a little bit annoying, aren't they? Plus they cut off reconnecting with long lost friends. But I guess we have Facebook for that now.

Come to think of it, why doesn't Blogger offer the Facebook option of being able to request permission into someone's blog? Maybe we should all send them a letter about it.

I've had a tracker on my blog for the last year and a half which tells me a lot about my viewers, and I can figure that most of you unknowns are friends of friends or friends of bloggers- which is great. Still, the tracker doesn't tell me enough to ease my concern about some of the questionable locations and comments I've gotten. Maybe I shouldn't be so fearful, but now that I've got more kids in school and less under my constant care, the cons of a private blog seem to outweigh the cons of having so many details about our lives spread across the internet. Besides, my kids are so dang cute- I wouldn't blame anyone for wanting to stalk us.

So here I am. In a private blog, for now, with probably less frequent posts. But that works for me. Thanks for sticking with me.