Marissa was happy to have finally found an escape-proof stroller; it made walking home from the park much more pleasant.
Monday, March 29, 2010
Day 116
Marissa was happy to have finally found an escape-proof stroller; it made walking home from the park much more pleasant.
Saturday, March 27, 2010
Day 115
Like many older brothers, Matt had frequently wished for a remote control that he could use on younger siblings. It'd taken some tinkering, but he'd finally made a breakthrough...
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Day 114
Matt sat, waiting patiently, power tools ready to go. His new neighbor, Pierre, would be there any minute to spend the day helping him with fencing.
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
Saturday, March 20, 2010
Friday, March 19, 2010
Day 111
For Lori, this was the last straw. She'd have to call the caterers and tell them that black olives would be banned from all future corporate retreats.
Wednesday, March 17, 2010
Day 110
Natalie was sure that this was her year to win the science fair, as long as her "after" didn't decide that she looked like lunch.
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Day 109
Nancy was less than impressed with her new chiropractor, even though he'd been highly recommended by a friend. Come to think of it, though, it was probably her own fault for asking, "Which doctor?"
Monday, March 15, 2010
Day 108
For Peter, pumpkin eater that he was, the pool boy was the last straw. He was going to have to do something about that wife of his.
Sunday, March 14, 2010
If you guys don't mind...
..I'd like to come back now.
:)
I can't tell you how much I've missed my LEGO people. Two weeks after my last post, my husband started a job halfway across the country. During the three months after that, I managed to finish all four of my courses at school (with 3 As and a B--look ma, no hands!), gave away a third of what we own, packed up all of our things and all six of our kids, and moved to the East Coast. We've been here for six weeks now and still most days I can't tell if my head is attached or not!
In October, I kept thinking that since I was still taking pictures, I'd be able to catch up. The longer I didn't post them, though, the harder it was to even think about opening Blogger. You know how that goes, right? At first it was just a few days, then it was "only" a couple of weeks, and suddenly it was a month and then two. I started to feel guilty, and then on the days we were moving and I didn't take any pictures at all, I felt even worse because I'd managed to fail at my 365. During all the chaos and everything that went wrong, my LEGO pictures were the one thing that I was able to be consistent on even when nothing else was working. Losing that consistency was really hard for me to deal with; even when I didn't have control over anything else, I'd still been able to post my pictures. Not only was that gone, but so is/was everything else familiar in my life.
Over the last two weeks, I've run into a few old friends, and several of them have asked me about my LEGO pictures. I'm finally thinking through the idea that this didn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition; that was pressure I was putting on myself, not something coming from other people. I've taken a lot of pictures over the last five months, and I'd hate for them to just go to waste.
I'll try to get a picture up every day, and if I don't, it will be there the day after. My wrists aren't healed yet, I'm living in a hotel, and there are a lot of things in life that aren't settled, but if I wait until things are perfect I'll be waiting a long time. I think I'm just going to jump right in anyway.
:)
I can't tell you how much I've missed my LEGO people. Two weeks after my last post, my husband started a job halfway across the country. During the three months after that, I managed to finish all four of my courses at school (with 3 As and a B--look ma, no hands!), gave away a third of what we own, packed up all of our things and all six of our kids, and moved to the East Coast. We've been here for six weeks now and still most days I can't tell if my head is attached or not!
In October, I kept thinking that since I was still taking pictures, I'd be able to catch up. The longer I didn't post them, though, the harder it was to even think about opening Blogger. You know how that goes, right? At first it was just a few days, then it was "only" a couple of weeks, and suddenly it was a month and then two. I started to feel guilty, and then on the days we were moving and I didn't take any pictures at all, I felt even worse because I'd managed to fail at my 365. During all the chaos and everything that went wrong, my LEGO pictures were the one thing that I was able to be consistent on even when nothing else was working. Losing that consistency was really hard for me to deal with; even when I didn't have control over anything else, I'd still been able to post my pictures. Not only was that gone, but so is/was everything else familiar in my life.
Over the last two weeks, I've run into a few old friends, and several of them have asked me about my LEGO pictures. I'm finally thinking through the idea that this didn't have to be an all-or-nothing proposition; that was pressure I was putting on myself, not something coming from other people. I've taken a lot of pictures over the last five months, and I'd hate for them to just go to waste.
I'll try to get a picture up every day, and if I don't, it will be there the day after. My wrists aren't healed yet, I'm living in a hotel, and there are a lot of things in life that aren't settled, but if I wait until things are perfect I'll be waiting a long time. I think I'm just going to jump right in anyway.
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