Leigh has a new blog - Hi Leigh!!!

This is so silly, really and I should get to work on my client site. But it is the 22nd for a little while longer and I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my mommy. She would have been 64 today. Sure miss her. She was so witty and smart and moody and silly. We got along great . . . except when we didn't LOL! IT breaks my heart that she didn't get to know (and visa versa) my last two kids and Henry barely remembers her now. I have been a Christian for a long time now and have a great deal of faith in God's word and I believe that my mom is in His presence right now. It never shook my faith or anything like that, but I was so surprised at how much my being me depended on her being there to see it. I had no idea how central to my sense of self she was. Still to this day, 6 years later, I see things in those terms. I find myself wondering what she would think, or say, or do about this or that. I still wish I could drop by and see her. She'd be sitting on her couch with her little feet up watching crap on TV and doing some craft - maybe cross stitch or something. She loved miniatures and even made a dollhouse. She was my best friend - she takes the cake! Happy Birthday, MOM!

Hi All you guys at GA!!!! Thanks for visiting!

Having a blast learning CSS! Thanks to my generous friends at Graphic Goo. I haven't done anything real fancy yet, but it's cool anyway! Sorry my tagboard is out of commission for all of you happy taggers. I'll put it on my list, but I may not get to it for awhile, so you'll have to find fun somewhere else. Bummer.

Well, I am recovering. From my first experience in an online forum/club. I won't say who or give details because that could be hurtful. I have already said enough, me thinks, but I have a few thoughts that will feel good written down. When I started to feel uncomfortable about where the group was going, I tried to extricate myself gracefully. I think that failed. It is unfortunate because now there will be taking of sides and all of that 'stuff'. My decision (and the decision of others) to leave the group wasn't meant to be hurtful or judgemental in the sense that aren't we better than they, but rather, we can't agree on a fundamental issue, so we must leave. It's too bad folks took it personally. Sometimes timing is everything. That's all I have to say about that. (Thank you Forrest Gump.)

Cant' figure it out - it must be a conspiracy!!! Both my tagboard and my comments aren't working! I feel so lonely!

On a different note - I am missing my Partners in Christian Homemaking. Hey, what about Robinson group? Where is everyone? Oh man, another conspiracy. My settings at Yahoo are all messed up and I haven't been getting any posts. What's up with that?! I'll go check in with the gals and see what's happening. It won't let me post. SO wierd.

Cute story. Last night Kaitlin made me read (one of my all time favorite kids books) The Wild Horses of Sweetbriar by Natalie Kinsey-Warnock as a song. The WHOLE book. LOL. I felt really stupid at first, but then I got drawn in to it and lost myself in the story and pretty soon I was almost crying with the beauty of it! Silly momma. When I got all done sniffling, she said, "Now read it again. Regular." Silly sissy.

Ooh ooh ooh - some new designs are up at Glassotica - click now, pay later! Glassotica - New Designs

Here's an adorable wallpaper I "built" after inspiration from my friends at Graphics Addicts and the great source, Pics.Am!


Yah Baby! 1024x768

So to get things started on the homeschool front, we've been playing Kismet in the morning. Similar to Yahtzee, it's a dice game yada yada. The kids have fun: the younger learning to add, the older helping out and also writing various number sentences, one for each turn, based on the roll of the dice. Fun. A nice way to warm up to the math after a 3 month break. After two days, the older is starting to get bored, but likes it better than straight math, which is coming real soon. We'll work a bit more on reviewing/memorizing the multiplication tables, and then it's back to the book - oh division his fav. Not. He is so funny. On the one had he hates starting something new, gets so intimidated, but then is so proud that he's moved on to the next thing. Kinda funny.

On the designing front - found a great css tutorial. I am gonna larn thisun soon. I'll just add it to the list of half-finished web projects I've got going on. Yuck-yuck.

Sickie-poo notwithstanding, I managed to upload some of the new Rigdonia Graphics layout - take a look-see!