Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Back to blogging

I'm back... to the world of blogging... I think....

The Littles are back in school (all day) and for the first time in 5 years I have time to work during the day.
Some of you know that I have a travel agency (home based) for something like 14 years now. Since Lily came home I have been working in the evening or whenever she was napping. Then Ty came home, we put our old house up for sale 4 months later, remodeled (well a builder did that part) our current house, packed everything while Jeff was driving 2.5 hours each way to work 4 days a week, moved, unpacked, and got busy with life the last few years. In all of that I still worked (during the evenings) from my home office.

Well, this year the Littles are in school all day and I am back to working during normal hours. The first day they were in school I thought back over the last 5 years and just took a big deep breath. It felt like we had been running a race the last 5 years. It was one big happy whirlwind. Now we are starting a whole new kind of race... maybe a new chapter is the better word.

The Littles LOVE school! It took a few weeks to get adjusted to full days and I'm pretty sure they're still adjusting (me too). AND..... while I miss them being here it is nice to have a little time to myself again.
Now if I can only remember how to balance office work with the laundry that is lurking just around the corner...not to mention the long list of projects I would LOVE to get done.

We are not the only ones adjusting......Our kitten Hershey was NOT thrilled with them going to school. He does what he can to keep them from leaving.... blocking the door... .laying on shoes or coats... toting their socks away...etc...
AND.... he must feel that I need some company because he spends the morning laying right in the middle of my desk covering all of my work.

Back to the blog.... I was hoping to have this blog updated by now but obviously that hasn't happened. I have been working on the rest of our Disney pictures..... goodness that seems like a LONG time ago that we went there. At any rate I am going to finish posting the pictures and then who knows maybe I can get something new and fresh on here. :-) We can all hope.......

So a little rewind back to the Disney cruise.....
These are from our day at the Disney private island Castaway Cay....

When we arrived it was cloudy and looked like it could rain.... By the end of the day it was a sunny day at the beach....



Lily climbing Jeff.... she was tired of walking...

Picking up our floats.... I pushed Lily around on one of these the entire day....

Ty LOVED playing in the sand...



Lily DIVA dancing at our BBQ lunch......



Ty COVERED in sand (and I do mean covered)... plugging his ears when I told him it was time to go back to the ship......



7 comments:

Megan said...

LOVE the beach pictures. Looks like such fun!

Football and Fried Rice said...

Aaaahhhhhhh, praivate island is SO SPEAKING my language right now!!

glad the kids are adjusting to school and I kow Hershey will soon :)

Football and Fried Rice said...

Bynthe way, if you are looking for something to blog about - we'd love a tour of the house!!

I am on chapter three of the book and so far, love it! Grace-based parenting has been what I've been missing ALL ALONG! It's isn't necessarily about PATIENCE or OBEDIENCE which is so freeing! It's about grace!

Let me know when you start it - I'd love to talk about it :)

Anonymous said...

Thank you so much for updating the blog! It was the medicine I needed to make me smile. Love the photos and each one is beautiful & makes us feel like we were there with you. Ty & Lily are so photogenic & the poses are such a joy. Love the updates and you all (+ Hershey too)! Love, Mom

amanda77kr said...

Racing seems about the right word for how time flies. It's amazing, isn't it!

Hilarious that Hershey tries to prevent the Littles from going to school...sounds like he's got quite the personality.

Debbie said...

YEAH! SO GLAD YOU ARE BACK.........LOOKING FORWARD TO PEEKING INTO YOUR LIVES. LOVE THE ISLAND PICS, YOU MUST HAVE FAB HOLS IN YOUR LINE OF WORK! ISNT IT AMAZING HOW MUCH WORK YOU CAN RACE THRO WITH NO LITTLE DISTRACTIONS!

the meaklims said...

Oh Tiffany, it looks like you all had so much fun. That cruise ship looks absolutely amazing. And your pictures could be used in a cruise catalogue, wow.

So good to hear about your new chapter of hopefully less craziness! :) And that the littles are loving school, that is wonderful.

So great to have you back!