ON THURSDAY'S I POST FROM THE VAULT. THIS POST IS FROM OCTOBER 2011. With the new school schedule, I have two days a week where I’m home with just India and Karis.  It’s . . . interesting. It’s so quiet.  And so easy.  I’ve actually been blown away by how different it is, and I think there is one main reason: My boys don’t play with toys.  My girls do. My girls will sit for hours and entertain themselves with toys.  They don’t need any prompting from me.  They create little stories.  They . . .

ON THURSDAY'S I POST FROM THE VAULT. THIS POST IS FROM OCTOBER 2011. I had my blog re-designed about a year ago, and I added an FAQ page to the menu bar.  I’m not  really sure what I had planned for this page, I guess it just seemed like a good idea at the time.  If you click on it, you can see that I’ve really done a lot with it. Ahem. Anyways, I need to pull it together and create something a little more interesting.  Except that I don’t really have any frequently asked questions.  Well, . . .

ON THURSDAY'S I POST FROM THE VAULT. THIS POST IS FROM SEPTEMBER 2011.   I think it’s been more than a week since I purged the iphone photos.  I’m a wee bit behind on blogging. And emails.  And life in general.  Ever have days where you have so much to do that you just sit, paralyzed, staring at the computer screen, sort o opening and closing browser windows wondering where to start and then realizing it’s been two hours and you’ve done nothing?  Yeah.  I’ve been doing a lot of that . . .

ON THURSDAY'S I POST FROM THE VAULT. THIS POST IS FROM SEPTEMBER 2011. I got back from Mighty Summit yesterday and I’m in the midst of unpacking (literally and figuratively).  It was an incredible weekend that I hope to write about more in detail, once I’ve had the chance to reconnect with the kids, upload my photos, and dig myself out of a serious email black hole.  For now, I’m posting pictures of our big night out with the boys at the Weezer show last week. I was thrilled to see Weezer . . .

ON THURSDAY'S I POST FROM THE VAULT. THIS POST IS FROM SEPTEMBER 2011. A couple weeks ago I gave a little tutorial on how I blog from my iphone.  I thought I would also share on of my favorite tools for blogging from the computer: Windows Live Writer (WLW).  I am always amazed when I talk to bloggers who write their post within the native Blogger or WordPress interface, because Windows Live Writer is just makes the whole process so much easier. Windows Live Writer is a blog publishing . . .

ON THURSDAY'S I POST FROM THE VAULT. THIS POST IS FROM SEPTEMBER 2011. Jafta had his first day of first grade today.  I guess I’m supposed to be all weepy and sentimal about it, but honestly?  I’m pretty happy that the school year is starting.  This was a tough summer and I’m excited that I’ll get a little quiet time in the mornings to work, and then be able to pick up the kids refreshed and ready to hang. It was also Kembe’s first day at Montessori, and let me tell you, we made quite an . . .

ON THURSDAY'S I POST FROM THE VAULT. THIS POST IS FROM AUGUST 2011.   ’m not really that tech-savvy, but really I’ve been on a mission to figure out how to write blog posts from my iphone.  I’ve been on the iphone for about a year now, and I’ve finally gotten comfortable enough with the touchpad keyboard to write some of my shorter posts from my phone.  I’ve also figured out a few hacks for getting pictures uploaded as well.  Since I write for several sites and usually have a couple . . .