Ok, I'm here to admit that even with the super-easiest website ever, I can't find time to blog. Bummer! But, now that it's summer I'm hoping to do a little catching up in many areas, this being one. So, I had a few minutes to throw on a couple of new entries... I hope you find a few minutes to check them out! Here's the link: http://web.me.com/debrajensen Love to all! Deb
No, not our family... our blog! Got you to open it, though, yes? Actually, I've moved my blog to a mac-based host because I found out that I've got a program already on my computer that allows me to create posts offline super easily and then publish. It saves boatloads of time! For example, if I want to add a pic, I just drag it in from iphoto and that's that! And it also let's me put blogs within my blog... so I've got the family on one, my cooking journal on another, and Olivia's got her own, too, which she is totally excited about.
So... If I ever want to have a blog that is even remotely up-to-date, one that I could actually keep going for longer than 3 weeks, I realize that I have to go this route. So here is the link: http://web.me.com/debrajensen
Now, I know that you can also add this link to your blogger dashboard to follow, but I have yet to figure out why it won't give you a feed from there. However, you can get an up-to-date feed using another reader, like Google Reader, by clicking on the RSS icon on the cover page of my site. I hope this will work for those who want to still follow us. I'm not sure if there is something else I can do, so I would love feedback.
OK, once again... no time to say more!
We'll see you over at the "Jive with Five"!
Love, love, love,
Deb and the Jiving Jensens
... your kids get pneumonia at age 5 and 2! Good grief! It's the second time in less than 18 months that we have had pneumonia in the family! Kate has it now... we caught it earlier than when Izzy had it, thankfully, so she is avoiding a hospital stay most likely. But with a new baby in the house, it is a little scary, I have to say.
This came on super fast. Fever didn't even start until middle of the night Monday. We were treating Kate's illness like a run of the mill flu bug until yesterday, when she started to get those tell-tale pneumo signs. By late afternoon, I suspected that this was not your usual virus. So I took her to this great doctor at Jensen Family Medicine (he's pretty handsome, too) and he walked her over to get a chest x-ray at San Tan Urgent Care while I finished the day's kid shuttling. Scott and Dr. Brooks are great friends... anyway, they both spotted the pneumonia -- left lung. After a priesthood blessing and some serious antibiotics, we are on the road to recovery today. Oh, and she's got pink-eye on top of it! So if you're in the neighborhood... don't stop by! Run away! Run far, far away! ;-)
Well, tonight it was kind of... bust, I guess. See, I had these great plans to take our Family Home Evening on the road, and go on a hike up the San Tans. With all of this rain, I'm sure that it is so beautiful and green, and Elaina is 8 weeks now, and I'm feeling like finally I could maybe survive it physically, and I just thought it would be such a fun outing. Well, Scott got home later than planned, and we were so slow getting ourselves out the door, that by the time we were actually on the road we had less than an hour of daylight left, and we still had to get gas. So, we took our "picnic" (yummy and cheap hamburgers from this odd gas station in town that has this Hispanic lady running a grill behind the counter - but that's another post entirely) to the library and I ate and fed Elaina in the car while Scott and the kids ate outside on the benches in the dark (thankfully the kids had brought flashlights for the hike, so they came in handy). What family togetherness! We finished eating with about 30 minutes to spare before the library closed. So we hustled in and barely had time to find our 5 books each and were the last to leave. Best laid plans...
So instead of posting gorgeous pictures of us in the rainy season desert, you'll have to settle for some shots of my kids' Christmas Graham Cracker Houses! Yes, I know that is totally, obnoxiously random... but don't we all just love it when someone posts holiday pics 2 months later? Josh was just today heard still playing his masterful rendition of "Carol of the Bells", so I figured it must be fate! ... So let's just say that the Christmas Spirit is still lingering here at the Jensen abode...
Do you, like me, find yourself with a little snatch of time in your otherwise crazy day, where you are at a standstill for just a moment -- at a long traffic light, nursing a baby, robotically loading a dishwasher or washing machine, pausing as you pull into your garage with a van full of sleeping kids, staring abjectly into the mirror, waiting for that stutter of your electric toothbrush to tell you that time's up... you know those moments? Do you get random thoughts at those times like I do? Probably not.
Admittedly, I am indeed at those times, the thinker of Random Thoughts. Deep, provocative thoughts. Utterly useless, trivial thoughts. Doubt-filled, insecure thoughts. Hopeful, heart-warming thoughts. Thoughts of all sorts.
Well, I've decided that it's time to start a post series; to list some of these... for posterity, I guess?
Thoughts this week (just a few for starters):
Actually, I missed all of you clever people and your fun blogs! I'll be following again, so look for comments and send me new invites, if necessary, please... (Did you think I could write my first sentence in all this time without ending with an ellipsis (...) ? Never! Some things never change... :-0 )
Well, this is a big blogging step for me... to try this again a year later. It is so frustrating to start over, because I can't remember how to do anything! For instance, can anyone tell me why the three column blog backgrounds from hot bliggity blog don't work for me? Or how to use photobucket again? or is there something better now?
And with so much time undocumented, where does one begin, anyway? Certainly, my life been a whirlwind of change!
As many of you know, I'm easily distracted. So, I'm starting back slowly... and ultra simply, which is the greatest challenge for me. So this may be the most boring blog you've ever read... but, once again, I'm reminded of my old mantra: "Better boring than blank!" Too bad I couldnt have followed my own good advice!
Anyway, here is my latest, most blessed "distraction":
