Sooner than I thought

Ms. Kim sure is on the ball today.

Head on over to Beautiful Wreck for part of my view on the Gulf Oil Disaster......

Come on down!  The beaches are fine!  Or are they?

Be sure to follow up back here this week for even more on this issue.

Thanks!

Tweaking, Trusting and Talking

I've been slaving away on getting the "look" here just right.  

Have a long way to go, but we're getting there - slowly but surely.  

Please bear with me as I tweak things around.

In other news, our two precious yellow labs have gone missing.  Beaux and Hoss are father and son and, as usual, the youngin' is a little frisky and wild, while the older is always watching him, trying to show him the way.  It looks like Hoss dug out under the fence and good 'ole dad must have tagged along to keep him in check.  They've been gone for two days now - longer than ever before.   My kids are a wreck, I'm a mess, too.  I don't want to think the worst but for them to be gone this long, they're likely locked up in someone's back yard...being claimed by a new family now...or worse.  And we won't way what "worse" is, okay? 

No amount of posting fliers or knocking on doors has warmed their trail for us, either.  Please, if you can, say a prayer that our boys are found or come home soon.  We've had Beaux for 6 years - all of my children have grown up with him.  All of us helped birth Hoss nearly 2 years ago - he was so big his mamma couldn't push him out, hence his name.  We're heartbroken without them and cannot imagine them not being here with us, a part of the family as they've been for so long.

On the lighter side - I've been asked to guest post this week over at Beautiful Wreck!  To say I'm excited would be an understatement.  Kim is a great friend of mine - we knew each other in high school but reconnected last year through Facebook.  I never knew many of the things I've learned about her since we met again and I started following her blog.  She's such an interesting person and her blog is always a fantastic read - please go visit her soon!  I'll be sharing some of my viewpoint on the BP Oil Catastrophe and will be sure to post here when my entry goes live over there.

I'm off to to sit in the sun for a while before the humidity sets in....enjoy your Wednesday!

Let's try this again

I'm not exactly new to blogging, though never was a SUPASTAR at it, either.

I've tried my hand at it twice before but for one reason or another I let them fall to the wayside.

Over the past year or so, I've had several friends (and even my father) compliment my writing style and encourage me to "get serious" about it. Most recently, my awesome friend Kim @ Beautiful Wreck has gently and kindly pushed me to blog on more than one occasion. Coming from such a talented writer and wonderful woman and friend, as she is, that's saying a lot.

As Kim knows, the last year of my life has been topsy-turvy, to say the least. During that time, I grew a great deal. . . . emotionally, intellectually, spiritually. My life is full, busy, eventful for sure. Plenty of fodder for writing can always be found somewhere in the daily routine. It's those moments I hope to focus on here - moments as a wife, mom, woman....as a person like any other who sometimes is just trying to get through the day. Other times I might be blatantly struggling. Even still, there will be those wonderful, never-enough times of joy, love and sweetness.

So I figured I might as well give it one more shot.

They say the third time really is the charm.

I guess we'll just have to see......