Moving to WordPress

My mommy made me.

So I'm working on that. It's really confusing and makes my head hurt. I want to quit and I've only been at it for a few hours. I've already called her six or seven times tonight just to have her tell me I'm doing the right thing. Not that she had the guts to do it herself. No, she's making her own daughter walk through the fire before her. Harumph. I see how it is.

But I guess she's sorta right. If I plan on making this (at the very least) an involved hobby, I may as well make this switch while I only have 14 readers. Although, I did have 175 views after I finished our courtship story. I guess I'll be posting more about that. So, all 175 of you, can you please follow me over to WordPress? Or at least can the 14 of you come looking for me if you don't see anything from me in for a while?

Feel free to check it out. It's totally still a work in progress, so be patient with me. Looks like all my posts and comments moved over there, but it's much more complicated to play with Widgets and make the page look how I want. Also, while my links are intact, they all bring you back to blogger. Not that I'm against that, but I guess the point of moving to WordPress is to be self contained over there. So I have to figure out if there is an easier way to fix them that doesn't involved updating each link individually. I am not hopeful of an easy fix.


sandalsinthesnow.com

Look Mom, I have a domain name!

A day in the life

What DOES a day in the life of this young wife look like?

7:30am Alarm goes off. Groan and push snooze. Roll over for some morning cuddles with the Hubs
7:39am Alarm goes off again. Sleep through it while Hubs presses snooze every nine minutes until...
8:24am Get up and let the dogs out. Use the potty (don't say you don't first thing in the morning) and grab sweats/robe.
8:30am Head to the kitchen to feed the dogs. Jackie is already barking at the door.
8:32am Consider whether to join Hubs in the shower to save water or make him a surprise breakfast.
8:33am Decide that cereal and Facebook sound like a lot less work than either a shower or a surprise breakfast.
8:34am Start tea pot and make cereal. Check email, Facebook, blog, and TapZoo.

I had intended to make a whole day's schedule for you, but the truth is on any given day I can be going to projects with Jake, cleaning the house, cooking, babysitting for friends, walking the dogs, working out, paying bills, running errands, making copies, filing paperwork, thinking about what to make for dinner, menu planning, grocery shopping, going to the bank, vacuuming, brushing the dogs, vacuuming some more, washing dishes, washing laundry, meeting with our accountant, thinking about house projects, watering plants, vacuuming again, talking on the phone with Mom, stopping by Mom's house to talk to her face to face, making lunch at home, going to lunch with a friend, going to lunch with Jake, vacuuming, being a sexcretary (not a typo), stapling documents, making dessert, answering the phone, talking to clients, more vacuuming, and...and...and...

Summer camp!

Blogging is SO time consuming. I've been talking a lot about this with my mom lately. She's been working really hard to make her blog, The Chloe Chronicles, something special, and she's doing a fantastic job. I, on the other hand, have recently been elected "Camp Administrator" for the annual youth group camp this summer and it has taken a real toll on my blog writing time. Camp is in a week and a half and very little has actually been done in terms of preparation. I have spent very large chunks of the last five days in the Camp Director's (a local youth pastor) office. On top of keeping the Camp Director in line, I have a house to clean, a husband to feed and spend time with, a pregnancy crisis center to volunteer at, and did I mention that husband to spend time with? Believe it or not he doesn't consider time I spend writing to all my 14 followers quality time with him. Even when I'm doing it right next to him. Crazy, right?

What I was coming here to say was: I haven't been around much lately because I've been SUPER busy with this camp stuff, and will continue to be busy with this camp stuff for the next two weeks. I told you I was going to keep myself busy. But don't worry, I'm not over extending myself. I get a high off doing administration duties. Being able to tell people what to do, and have them listen...it's like crack for me. Seriously. And I'm good, too. I'm very organized. I make lists. I stay on top of deadlines. I keep everyone up to date. I keep all the paperwork in order. I keep copies of all my paperwork in order.

So, since I am single-handedly trying to keep camp and my husband from simultaneously imploding, I've let blogging slide for a bit.

I made a yummy spaghetti dinner with home make garlic bread. The kitchen is sparkling (thanks mostly to my SIL who does my dishes when she comes over for dinner), and speaking of kitchens, now it is time to assign Kitchen Clean Up for the campers. Yippie!!