I enjoy reading your blog and would be sad for you to go away. I know that Life gets in the way, and you must do what's best for your family, but please stick around...and maybe add the baby to the four kids in the header? She's liable to get a complex if she sees it as is when she's older. :-)
I love hearing about my "nieces and nephews" this way... plus it always surprises your mom when I get to say "Oh, I know" when she updates me on how you are all doing!
It is hard to keep blogging when you lose the rhythm. Obviously, your family (and your sanity) come first. You know I am a big advocate of popping on for routine quick posts. Sometimes I have something to say that I didn't even know was lurking beyond the immediate diapers, dishes, and laundry pile.
Well, I tried to vote "take a nap," but could definitely relate to killing the blog. I am so happy you have this blog - you definitely helped me with the conversion thing and I appreciate your presence here. On the other hand, as I contemplate killing my own blog, I could hardly blame you.
It's hard. I am happy to have met the people I've met with it, I like being part of the community. But there's no question that it can take away from real life and that real life is way more important. Good luck!
I very much enjoy your blather, and much prefer a reduced output rather than a full stoppage. Maybe an early summer hiatus? Stop for a month, but keep a list of the things you *would* have said, and reevaluate at the end?
Thank goodness we filed our taxes early, or the past two weeks might have caused a full blown nervous breakdown.
To start at the end, Pope Benedict and I have a birthday today. My husband got me some beautiful and yummy looking fruit tarts for my "cake" but I think His Holiness might just have gotten the cooler birthday eats. Of course, who knows what kind of cake I might get if I'm around at 82?
And now to back up to things gone by, I hope all my readers out there who celebrate Easter had a lovely one. I sure never thought growing up that's be one celebrating it. But here I am.
Ours was a very, very full time. Three weeks before Easter, our priest, who is new to the parish, decided our parish should have all the usual Holy Week services. They had not been celebrated in our parish for over 50 years, so this was a big deal, especially to make happen on three weeks notice.
My husband and the schola started practicing a lot, leaving some of their wives with young children rather frustrated and overworked. I supposed it might have been considered Lenten penance. All the services were quite beautiful, and if I may brag, the music practices did pay off, because the men sang and chanted very well, especially my husband when he chanted the Exultet at Easter Vigil.
I am still recovering from Holy Week though. Late evenings every night, capped off by a 1:00 return from Vigil, an 8:30 a.m. mass on Easter and a party all afternoon for a friend who just converted. And as you all may remember some of us aren't as young as we used to be.
In there, we also managed to make hot cross buns (which would have been better had I noticed that the 2 year old had turned off the oven) and dye eggs with natural dyes (my favorites were the blue ones dyed with purple cabbage).
Happy Eastertide to you all and let me know if you need my address to send all those birthday packages I know you are itching to get off your hands.
Paul's voice is in demand at our church, too, so I know how that goes (though it sounds like J's practice schedule was way more rigorous than Paul's ever is!). The wife of our head pastor saw me getting into the van to drive away Easter Sunday and made a point to commend me for getting the boys dressed and out to church on my own (Paul was there early, and for once we didn't try to be ready to go with him). She mentioned that she had had to do that a time or two =] It's nice to feel appreciated!
Jordana Adams, Chief Pontificator