Swensen Sentral

(This is a recent photo taken over Thanksgiving of my whole family) I've neglected you. I'm sorry. Not that I have many followers or readers, but to those of you who do comment or look at my blog now and then, I am sorry. See, the problem is that I have discovered how much easier it is to use facebook. I know, I know, I never thought of myself as a "facebooker". I always saw it as a "single" and "young" thing to do and kind of a waste of time mostly. But my opinion has changed. My main reason for blogging was to keep in touch with my family and friends who I can't be near anymore, and I do that mostly through pictures. Well, you all know how difficult it is to upload pictures to blogger...you have to resize them, then post only 5 at a time, and then rearrange them how you want which is most annoying. I just found that with facebook I can skip all those steps. I can download as many as I want straight from my computer and rearrange the...

...quite a day. The words I repeated most, "no, no, no, no, no..." and "oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh..."

Chase told me this morning that he wanted his clothes to look "fashioned" and his hair to be "stylish" and then when I was combing his hair he said "Mom, that's embarrassing." Seriously! Isn't he still 5?

So...I did get a piece of advice I've been putting to good use and it's been helping a lot. "Slow down, take time out for yourself, don't feel guilty about it, give yourself some room to breathe, do something luxurious, in essence stop and smell the roses." I think sometimes I get going too fast and focus solely on "getting things done" that I forget to enjoy life. I took my kids into the woods one day and enjoyed nature. That was therapeutic. I sat outside and watched them play, instead of staying in to do the dishes. That was therapeutic. I went on a bike ride and played with a dog instead of making dinner. I laid down and looked at a magazine instead of making a phone call. I watched a movie with my sisters instead of folding laundry. All these things I needed. I tend to work before the play and I think sometimes forget the play all together. Also, I stopped making myself daily "to do" lists. They stress me out far too much. For s...

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Can't believe my little boy is growing up so fast.

I can't believe it's been 10 yrs! Crazy. I've been busily planning my upcoming high school reunion with the help of some great girls. We want it to be a huge success, and the best way of doing that is to get as many people to come as possible. So if you are a long lost friend from CHS that "happened" upon my blog one day, please check out our class blog for details of the event! It's going to be August 7th! http://centennialclassof2000.blogspot.com Hope to see you there!