I’m sitting on my porch, listening to the cacophony of birds, feeling the sun warm my legs, and feeling a gentle breeze. The maples on our street have finished flowering, and teeny tiny leaves have burst from the buds. Our driveway, sizewalk, and stret are covered with spring-green maple flowers. Dandelions have popped out on every lawn, and the kids are having a blast gathering them. Andrew declared (many times) that his favorite color is yellow. (Just so you know, that’s true today only.) Tulips are standing proud and colorful, the squirrels and birds are racing around with hormonal franticness…May, how I love you!
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A little slide show
Back from Minnesota
I had a lovely time at Carleton on Friday and Saturday. And today, Sunday, was a beautiful spring day to beat all beautiful spring days. I got home after the kids were in bed last night. Andrew had requested to be awoken, and he came racing down the hall and gave me a flying hug, wrapping his legs around my waist, ankles hooked together behind my back.
Ahh, the smell of my children. I’ve been drinking it in all day long. My favorite part is the nape of the neck, right where his curls begin. On Sylvie, I think I prefer just behind her ears when I nuzzle my nose there…my lips resting on her beautiful neck.
Learning about Spain
Bryan’s parents are on vacation in Spain right now, and we’re having fun tracking their travels on Google Maps. Andrew and I spent a little time this morning looking a the terrain and at photos of the areas they are visiting. Today is LuAnn’s birthday. I’m hoping they’re having a lovely day!
Photomania
I am totally OCD-ing this whole transfer of photos to Flickr thing. After a couple days of lots of hours, I’ve moved all 6,000+ pictures. They’re all sorted into beautiful collections. You can look up my photos by date! On a calendar! There are oodles of sets (albums) which I am now reorganizing by date. And after some consideration, I’ve decided to tag my pictures. Because wouldn’t it be fun to see all the pictures I have of “crying” or “smiling” or “flowers” or “granny.”
This is going to be a long process. Bryan has called into question my sanity and/or preference for free-time activities. But I love my “toes” tag, and I’m looking forward to going through each and every one of those 6,000 pictures. This might take a while…
Quotes from the universe
My friend Jessica (who has a knack for finding great things) sent me the following email that she received from The Universe. Made me laugh and smile all day, so I thought I’d share.
There isn’t a moment in any day, Jessica, when someone, somewhere, isn’t better off because of something you’ve done.
And no matter what you do, or don’t do, with the rest of your life, you cannot now comprehend the amounts of love, joy, and personal assistance that are already being pressed out to you in gratitude.
Must be nice,
The Universe
She received this great note from an email subscription. Here’s what their website says about their daily notes:
Notes are brief passages written by “The Universe,” personalized with your name (and occasionally your personal goals and dreams), designed to remind you that you have, indeed, been given dominion over all things.
Notes from the Universe are unconventional, humorous, deeply insightful, and wildly popular! They’re also free and sent out 5 days a week!
TUT’s Adventurer’s Club sounds like a fun group. I’m always glad to find out about things that make me smile! Let me know if you decide to try them out:)
Photo transfer in progress
As Bryan and I sat and watched the second episode of John Adams tonight, I moved most of winter and spring 2008 pictures onto Flickr. I’m pretty excited about the archive function on Flickr. You can look photos up by date on a calendar.
All my uploaded albums (called collections on Flickr) can be found here.
cool!
Photo insanity
Now that I’ve got my WordPress blog up and running about how I want it, I’ve tried to work on the photo gallery part of my blog. The problem is that since I switched to Gallery2 a year or so ago, it seems like the gallery has worked reeeaaallly slowly. And since one of the main purposes of this blog is photosharing, I’m really not OK with it being that slow.
So yesterday I did some research and compared Picasa and Flickr and other photo options, and I decided to switch to Flickr. So I got myself a “pro” account. Next step…move the 6,700 photos from the last four years to Flickr. No small feat!
Today is a fantastically beautiful day. It’s Earth Day. Andrew and I should be outdoors planting seeds. But I’m moving photos. And it makes me so happy!
My website has a new home!
I’m writing to you from a whole new blogging platform. Over the last couple weeks (thanks to the urging of my brother) I moved my blog from Mambo to WordPress. It’s been a good move. I still have some things I’m tweaking, but I was anxious to invite you all to my new space.
Please let me know if you run into problems or if you have suggestions for improvements. This is way too exciting for me. I’ve been completely obsessed the last week!
Andrew’s watching me type, and he’s been pointing out words he recognizes. Sweet kid.
Well, enjoy!
Photo download extravaganza
April 19: It’s Sunday morning. Sylvie is napping. Andrew and Bryan are playing Sequence. I decided to grab this peaceful moment to download the photos on my camera. It’s been over a week, and I had 650 images. Yikes. I hadn’t downloaded my Wichita photos yet. This is going to be quite a project.
The other night I was up until midnight working to on (drum-roll please) a new platform for this blog. I’ve been using Mambo for the last four years, but I’m having some serious problems with spam. I’m also kind of unhappy to be working on a platform that is no longer being actively developed. So I’m a-switching to WordPress. Databases have been created, migration has taken place (with a huge amount of help from my SQL-proficient husband). And I’m going crazy with all the fun widgets available.
Now I’m working to tweak the look of the blog. We still need to migrate comments, but soon when you visit here you’ll see a new look. I love developing web pages!
I’ll spend the rest of Sylvie’s nap splitting my time between photo processing and theme-tweaking. Ahh, bliss:)