How Smart Do I Feel? Umm...Not Very

Just when I think I've got technology figured out, yep.  I realize I most definitely  DO NOT. 

I tried loading music on my lovely iPhone 3GS.  First, 'create a new playlist' because my kids have playlists and songs already on ALL of the computers here at home (yes, I own 3 of said computers).  So, since I don't want to listen to THEIR music, I have to create my own.  How hard can it be to google the solution and do this, I ask myself?  Easy-peesy.  I create the playlist, name it, and there you go!  Ta-dah!  Then, let's sync it up.  Nope.  Not. Nothing's happening!  Download new iTunes.  Download new phone software.  Now it wants to download EVERY single thing that's ever been downloaded on  iTunes including ALL of my kids' stuff:  40+ videos??--I don't think so!  Sigh.  The real question is--'How many times did you hit 'slide to cancel' before you finally got the thing to load the music correctly?  AT LEAST 40.    

You would never guess I'm the Daughter of a Rocket Scientist. 

Too bad the genes didn't rub off just when I needed them most....

New Year

Let's see if I can manage to post again more than twice a year--lol.  I dunno.  ;)  [Facebook seems to be easier and less pressure to make sure it's right.]  When I think of how smart I used to be, I am sometimes disappointed in what I manage NOT to do now.  Still, I have a lot to be grateful for and some goals I wish to accomplish. 

I am grateful for my family.  I truly do see the 'hand of God' in my life with them every day.  My husband blesses my life with his endless amount of patience and kindness.  My children are so loving and forgiving of my faults.  I pray that I don't mess them up and that I raise them to follow the Lord and be kind to each other and others.  I hope that we can ever push forward even if we take baby steps, to becoming the family we should be and the one that others sometimes think we already are (we're not, btw--we are sooo not perfect, truly but we are trying to become better).

I admire so many different traits in my children and are glad that they have them--often in spite of me--and sometimes I hope and pray because their father and I help nurture them.  Independence, strength, gentleness, restraint, meekness, love, patience, happiness, generosity, willingness to help, ability to listen, humility, sense of humor, intelligence, testimony, and the list does go on.  I so love my children.  I love their father.  My life is indeed rich.

Spring Break 2009

It was a cool spring break week for Georgia and South Carolina. We spent the better part of the week in Myrtle Beach, SC. It's the first time we've ever been there as a family and it was WAY fun. :) We rented a 3 BR, 2 BA condo with a full ocean front view right on the beach. That is THE way to go, I promise you. The water was very cold but we still waded in. The Caribbean Resort had nice heated pools--including an indoor lazy river and 2 hot tubs--and it was excellent. We would go back there in a heartbeat. We spent a good deal of our time at a place called Broadway at the Beach. It's like an outdoor mall/entertainment complex. We got this deal called a 'ticket to play' and got to do a good assortment of things like a 3D IMAX movie, the Ripley's Aquarium, Dragon's Lair MiniGolf, 5 rides in the Pavilion fair area and Brynna and my favorite thing of all-MagiQuest.

MagiQuest is this awesome thing that is beyond lasertag and into a puzzle-solving addiction that makes you want to go back again and again. Yes, Brynna, Greg, and I returned for a second hour. Brynna became a Magi and Greg and I nearly finished the first 11 quests (Brynna IS the family genius, after all). You get the wands that have a computer memory chip and you keep them forever--which you have to admit is COOL. I don't even know when we'll go back and already, I am dying to finish my last 2 quests and become a Magi like my daughter. She can now do adventures instead of quests and I am envious of her. Sheesh. IT IS ADDICTIVE. And the sad thing is, the closest one is in Myrtle Beach. Wah! I have to bo back. Seriously, if you have one near you, GO! You will not regret it. The first time may be a long learning curve but after that, you realize you MUST finish it and go on....

Trying to figure it out

OK, if I can figure out facebook, surely I can do this, too. I set this up a long time ago but haven't seemed able to post to it. Sometimes I think my brain was fried years ago when I left college to get married. Does having 6 kids fry your brain cells? Among other things, I believe the answer is unequivocably, YES! ;-) Of course, I wouldn't trade them for anything but still, I do feel occasionally like I'm losing my mind.

Some days you feel on Top of the World and other days, you feel like the sludge on the bottom of the barrel. You know, those days when you feel like you just can't do or say anything quite right? Why at the age of 47 am I just not getting it all right all the time? I guess that's why I'm still here. Good thing I have perspective. I know that nothing lasts forever and that things get better. Hopefully, I can teach that to my children. I do love them muchly. They are truly some of the greatest things that have ever happened to me.

My husband is the other greatest thing and my grandson is the other other greatest (yes, I speak 'good English well'). I have a lot to be grateful for....