This post is just to let you know that I will be redirecting paperbridges.net to monicabrand.com/blog. I hope to see you at the new space. Thanks for reading.
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That was a nice break and other TMI
Remember me?
Oops. That was unintended, but my lack of full-time computer in my own regular writing space really messed up the updating here. Thankfully it looks like I will be up to speed in the coming week (new motherboard! shiny!) and the blogosphere will return to normal as I begin to share with you again.
How the Interwebz survived without me for so long is beyond my understanding.
In other news, I’ve acquired my .com – as in monicabrand.com – and for a few days of sheer stupidity, I thought I was going to have two seperate blogs. Paperbridges and the new one. Then I remembered how sometimes writing for one blog could go neglected for days, weeks, so how could I possibliby maintain two blogs.
Like, duh.
So I’ll be transferring everything here to the new url (should that be all in caps? URL?) and redirecting my original monicabrand.net and paperbridges.net.
And with that bit of information, we have reached the “too much information” part of the title of this post.
See what the blogosphere has been missing?
How did it survive without me?
Update: end of August, beginning of September
On vacation: Drove to Florida to visit Doc’s parents. Lucy learned to love swimming due to their heated pool, googles that fit just right and lots of downtime to swim when she wanted. All of my kids really came into their own as swimmers in that pool.
If you are friends with me on the Facebook, pictures are posted.
This was our fourth time (maybe? can’t remember) driving to Florida. I’d love to say we enjoy every minute of each other’s company, but that would be a lie. It’s a long way to go and the family van is not the best enviroment for finding personal space to take a break from that annoying-to-you sibling.
And all the moms of more than one child know exactly what I’m talking about.
Now this is the part of this blog post in which I want to write about something that happened, but I’m not sure I want to share it publicly. It’s not a huge deal, yet it bothered me, still bothers me, and I know there are readers here who would benefit, but…
Do I really want to stir that pot?
Sorry to be all clandestine. I will share. Eventually, tip toeing through the potential minefield of emotion and over sharing.
Onward with the memory keeping: We did our favorite zoo, went out on the boat, found all sorts of Florida critters we don’t have up here in Jersey. All fun.
On the way home, we took our time with two coffee-related meetups. One in Georgia, one in Virgina, both with coffee geeks Doc met via social media. We promised the kids both times the visits would be quick.
Ha. When we start talking coffee, we can lose track of time. Poor kids!
Now home and this is the first Monday of us getting back into that mode of driving to all the stuff that kids do like AWANA, piano lessons and Wednesday night church.
It’s good to be home.
So that’s my end of August and the first bit of September.
And for those keeping track, all of the Important Bits of my old Dell are now in this old laptop which the kids used to fall in love with Minecraft and Super Tux. Right shift key won’t work. Making me crazy, but what can one do?