FundyNutter

Where have I been? What have I been doing? Making great strides in my research? Discovering new facets to the historical world as we know it? Making friends and influencing people?

Goodness no! I’ve mostly been eating a lot of coco-dyno-bites (you know, the ones in the bag that taste just like the cartoon theme ones but come at a more pleasant price per ounce), playing a lot of mine sweeper and ignoring anything that takes effort or thought.

Now wait, minesweeper is a fine game that makes you think by working the strategy and pattern part of your brain, right? Um. Yeah. Maybe. If that is the case, I may find myself giving that up too.

In addition to blogging, I have been neglecting my housework, my responsibility to recruit a new pre-school Sunday school staff, my life group Bible study book (Covenant Marriage, by Gary Chapman, in case you were wondering) and I’ve been neglecting my friends too. That’s a great deal of work to neglect. However do I find the time to neglect so much? Well. I’m glad you asked.

The other things eating up my time (besides chocolate cereal and playing mindless games) have been quality time with my mom and my kids. Mom goes back to work tomorrow and the last couple of weeks have been filled with the heady rays of summer sun and little girl play. There have been dress up picnics and many, many mud-pies. I have spent many an hour pulling dandelions from my grass and while watching little golden heads glowing in the sun and running—it can only be called merrily—about the yard. Yup. It has been a nice summer. I have a feeling that this little piece of internet real estate will rise in value to me as the rains of autumn fall on us and we girls are stuck inside the house, with only inside things to entertain us.

This cereal fueled summer indolence can’t last forever. The hum fall harvest activity, like the busy squirrels of my yard, is all around. Our fall activities? A friend and I are going to co-op a little pre-school for our kids. I will be taking the girls to play group twice a week. I plan on joining one of those charming circuit training centers for girls only. And doing lots of sewing. Mostly sweet little dresses for girls aged one to three. Oh, and I have been waiting for a year for a certain book to come out in paperback—it should be here in October. So my leisure reading will move from the lawn chair in the grass to the arm chair by the window. And instead of little golden heads running hither and yon I will watch the rain puddling the yard and listen for that cry that says nap is over.

But I anticipate that blogging will be a great relief and vent for my rained-in-seasonal affected-loneliness, and look forward to many hours blathering on about myself and my plans and my silly ideas, which are more fun to come up with than to support. And I am looking forward to doing some blogosphere networking. I hear there are some wonderful peers out here in info-space shaing ideas, processing the world, and dreaming together.