Finally...and some changes

Finally I am taking a moment to post to this blog. Until people comment about how we never post anymore, I am reminded that it needs to be done. Facebook has really taken over as our ways of communication and picture posting - especially  since Marc slipped into the rabbit hole the end of last year! And now my magnificent, wonderful, and geeky husband  has linked out Facebook pictures to the blog. You can find a link on the home page at the top! With even more technology at our fingertips (we got iphones) we seem to be posting more photos and being even better about documenting!

To catch you all up:

Lola started kindergarten. She LOVES it. Loves it so much she won't leave line to come back and hug or kiss me. She is is reading...lots. We just finished out first chapter book together. She wants to write everything herself and jumps on the one homework assignment she gets a week as soon as she is home. I can only hope that her enthusiasm for learning continues as strong as we have seen it so far.



Sid is three now! He is talking a mile a minute and is quiet entertaining! He is part time with a home sitter and will be starting preschool in a month. He is excited to be going to school.  He has had several hair cuts since we finally cut it all off. We currently gave him a pretty short buzz cut!



Marc and I are good. We recently co-located with the Sleep Shop who sells organic and eco-friendly mattresses, bedding, pillows and more. (For those out of town - we can ship a # of these awesome beds right to your door!) It is awesome! As another mom and pop shop, we all get days off and have actually had time to spend together as a family and have even squeezed in a camping trip.

I'll be better as there is lots to talk about...chickens, chicken massacre, business news, visitors, trips and more!

Stay tuned!

San Diego pictures

Woo hoo!  Marc got some photos posted in a timely manner!  We hit San Diego for a few days recently, the zoo, a few beach visits (not hot enough to bask or swim, just play), and a couple breweries for Dada were among the highlights.  As per my previous post, no captions anymore, so if there' s something you're curious about, just ask!   You'll find pictures in a new album in the gallery.

Next big adventure chez Tiar...the chickens are in the coop.

A few new pics

Finally got around to clearing off the camera, added the cream of the crop to the Lola album, the Sid album, and a new album!  Since I was having a hard time trying to figure out in which album to put pics where both kids figure prominently, I created a new album called "Both our kids" for those kinds of shots.  I'm not going back through old ones to move previously-filed-under-one-kid-or-the-other-when-it-had-both-kids-in-it pics into the new album, but still.

And, in an effort to do this more often, I'm giving up on my lame captions.  Pictures are worth 1000 words already, you don't need my dumb commentary.

Ran out of time today, but I've got a bunch of videos to post as well, hopefully tomorrow.  Also in an effort to streamline things, for starters, to get caught up, I'm just going to mash them all together in one big stream of consciousness kidfest.  It's been so long since I've done this routinely, I can't even remember all the steps and processes I used to go through, so I'll probably be looking for more effortless ways to post video as well.  We'll see what happens.

wow

Three months plus since we last posted here.  We're still here, still living our little lives.  Still struggling, loving, fighting, and having fun.  Mostly have moved a lot of commentary onto Facebook.  I'd still like to keep this site viable.  Stay tuned, maybe I'll get back into the swing of things soon...