Yeah, I’ve been avoiding my blog.

Last weekend I had a few things sting me. I was feeling left out, and it sucked. It came at an odd time, since I was feeling really good on Thursday night, when I had gone out with my fellow Mile High Mamas to explore Golden, CO. I laughed so hard I was crying, and felt like I was really connecting with these ladies.

I guess I need to spend some time deciding what I want to do with my blog. I love connecting with people on Twitter, and to a lesser degree, on Facebook. But I don’t feel like I know what I’m doing with my blog. I don’t feel motivated to write, and most of the time I don’t feel like I have anything to share that would interest other people.

Hopefully a good idea will spurn me into action.

Today I was chatting at the church office with the other Melissa, and realized I was running late to get Miles from school. I did my best not to speed all the way there. But my speedometer was pretty steady at 5 miles over the limit. My eyes darted frequently between the clock and the speedometer. A car behind me, unhappy with my speed, pulled out into the next lane, sped up and pulled in front. I followed this car for several miles. Once I was on Smoky Hill, I knew I was in the home stretch. I still had 10 minutes to go, at least. And the clock told me I was going to be late. I prayed, Lord, please don’t let me get a ticket. I know which parts of Smoky Hill the police love, and there I was. I played in my mind being pulled over, being even more late to get Miles. I told myself, don’t speed, just stay the course.

Speedy car from earlier, booked it down the road, and then I saw a police car. He turned the corner slowly, pulled up right behind the car, and flashed his lights.

Shocked, I just uttered, “Holy Hannah. Thank you God, that it wasn’t me”.

I know I could get a ticket for going 5 miles over the limit. I just thanked God that He didn’t allow that today.

Like a sloth, I’ve been slow to move my blog to its new home. I’m not super familiar with wordpress, and less than motivated to figure out how to move everything over. Please be patient.

I’m hoping someone has noticed I haven’t been blogging. Where have I been?

My focus to love more, serve more has put me in charge of a new ministry at our church. Reaching out to those going through big life stuff (babies, death, illness). And since this is still in its infancy stage, it has been a lot of work.

I’ve also been figuring out what to do for the boys birthday parties. I thought it best to host two small parties rather than one large one. But I awoke this morning at 6am stressing about Miles’, which is next weekend. And no one has rsvp’d yet. So I will have to spend today & Monday tracking those parents down, asking them if their child is coming. And the stress comes in when I think, what if no one comes?

I promise, this weekend I’ll write a real blog post. Something that will hopefully get you thinking.

Did I hype that too much? 🙂

Figured I was due to update on the boys. Especially since this is an actual source for people to hear things.

Miles.

Preschool going well, and I really hope once he turns 4 next month, we’ll be passed the horrible threes. Those are way worse than the terrible twos. We’re continuing to work with him at home with his speech. Ms. Trish sends home updates every week, things we need to follow up on.

He is celebrating Culture Day on Feb 1st, and I’m tasked with making a poster about Canada. Wanted to prepare a Canadian treat, but we don’t have the snow required for that. May try to convince Geoff to make butter tarts instead.

Elijah.

He still enjoys Kindergarten, and continues to thrive. His teacher, Mr. C, has asked Elijah to play a major role in the Kindie play in February. It took some convincing to get Elijah to say yes, as he had some concerns. Namely that he didn’t want to be the villain, and he was worried kids would laugh at him. They are performing The 3 Piggies Opera, and Elijah is the Big Bad Wolf. He seems to be over his issues, and has his lines memorized.

Other than a 24 hr bug last week, both kids are healthy & doing well. They have been planning their birthday party since November, and have their hearts set on doing a Pirate theme again. If you were thinking of sending a gift, please- no toys. They received so many at Christmas, I’d rather we didn’t add more. Books, movies, games, gift certificates are all good ideas. I’m trying to add those items to their Amazon wishlists to help you.

Now that we are a month into the school year, I thought it was time to give you an update.

Elijah loves Kindergarten. He has had a few homework assignments, which he felt were not long enough. Slow down kid! You have years ahead to be saddled with too much homework. He’s made a few friends in his class, Bram & Cassie. I think last Friday was his best day ever, it was picture day, he got to buy popcorn and he was chosen to take home the class teddy bear, Bubba. In turn, we had to do something fun with Bubba and write about it in the Bubba book. We went to Color Me Mine and painted.

Miles, Bubba & Elijah

Miles has since changed his “school is a little bit dumb” attitude, and isn’t complaining anymore. He is thrilled when he gets chosen to be the line leader, and loves playground time. He will be working with the class speech therapist to correct his pronunciation, and I’m waiting to hear back from the school district about how we can make sure he’s seeing her more regularly. Right now, he only sees her twice a month.

With all the work & art they are bringing home I’m going to need another office box to store them in. I’m curious what other parents do with all the school work brought home. Do you save it? Do you scrapbook it? Let me know.

I’d love to be a better photographer, so for fun, I’m entering a picture on a fellow MHM (Mile High Mamas) website, Greeblemonkey. One of my favorites from our hike around Lily Lake.

Wildflowers, Lily Lake, RMNP

I don’t even care if I win, I’d just like to be a finalist. To know that other shutterbugs think I have a good eye.

We enjoyed a lovely camping trip to Rocky Mountain National Park, and I plant o write about it this week.

For reals. Until then, look at how pretty it was!