***Bon Voyage!!***

I am so ready for this beach you have no idea.

I am ready, ready, ready to go!!!

But first,

I have been using Bloglines for long time to check the latest posts. My list started small, grew to average, then to large, and extra large. I was reading a lot of design blogs, craft blogs, idea blogs and just blogs I was interested in! I love most of the ideas I saw, did I do any of them? NO!

It became overwhelming when I would skip a day of reading and there would be like 120 posts to catch up on. Let's not even talk about how many there would be when I would go out of town. I know there is no way I will want to read over 1000 posts when I come home. So, I cleaned out my list. If you are on my sidebar I read your blog through bloglines, unless of course it is private. I will continue to do so.

To all those others, who really were a way to help me waste my time....GOODBYE!!! I do NOT want blogging to be something to weigh me down. It only felt right to clean out since this month for me has been all about Spring Cleaning!

I feel a great weight, obligation, and self induced pressure lifted off my commenting and reading shoulders. I will read your blogs when I return, but I may not able to comment on all of them.

Until then I am signing off!

Have a wonderful Weekend and next week for that matter!

Spacing Off a Bit

Happy Birthday to my blog....about a month ago! I swear I am not on top of things lately. I wanted to do a 100 things about me at 100 posts. I forgot. I decided to it at 200 posts. Nope. Forgot again!

I wanted to at least acknowledge the one year anniversary of all this wonderful craziness, we call blogging. Didn't do it. I guess for my real b-day I will post the anniversary montage I never got around to posting! Sheesh!!

This week I won't be posting a lot. I am packing, packing, packing. Did I mention packing? Oh yes I will be "leaving on a jet plane" and "sailing." Of course, I do like to blog most when I am wanting to procrastinate something I hate to do. Did I mention packing? For me. For Jeremy. For 10 whole days away. Packing for my kids. All the toys, clothes, and entertainment they will need to keep them occupied at J's Mom's house.

I can't complain a whole lot, because I know I will have a great time. It is just the major preparation that comes along with it all. I just try to think of all those undisturbed nights of sleep. No baby crying. No S crawling in my bed EVERY night at around 3:00 a.m. No M waking up at 6:00 a.m. wanting breakfast and a drink. To sleep in will be wonderful!

To answer what happened to my little one, M was helping us put the grocery sacks in our cart as the cashier filled them up. She turned around real quick and slipped in her flip flops. Before she could brace her fall with her arms, she smacked her face into the black shopping cart buffers on the side of the register stand. ( I guess you call it)

Why does a black eye look worse before it starts to get better? I got quite a few looks today walking around with my obviously bruised faced child. M was so funny! She kept saying, "Mom everyone loves my purple shirt!" Or purple eye I would muttered under my breath. Thankfully at four she is more intrigued than embarrassed by it.

This is Why...

...my kids will NOT be wearing any of these...

To one of these...

ANYMORE!

Those floors are way too darn slick.

It is 2008, right??

Last night it was the 1980's. Not for me, but for a lot of people. Jeremy was excited when a favorite band of his was actually coming to town. He bought 5 tickets. One for himself, Three for friends. One for me?

The band...Def Leppard!

I am not a huge fan, but I did exist in the eighties, so do know some of their songs.

I tried to get out of it, even up til the last minute. After a long day with kids, I want a relaxing evening. Not one filled with electric guitar. I just couldn't get out of it.

I went and it was actually fun! We enjoyed ourselves. The crowd was a bit older, but that made it more entertaining. You know how you can tell the age of the crowd? There were more cigarette lighters waving in the air than cell phones.

Definitely a blast from the past!