Flowers

Disclaimer: This is my first post about the joys of living in a small town - but first a tribute to my husband.

My wonderful husband had a beautiful bouquet of flowers delivered to our home on my 30th birthday. We had a discussion the week before about how he never knows exactly what flowers I really like - part of that problem comes from me. I tend to change my mind - I don't have one favorite flower. Flowers to me have personalities - and the best I can figure, I like whichever one suits my mood at the moment. Well, this time he went in to the flower shop and asked Terry (the owner) to put in every "funky flower" he could find. Well kudos to Nolan and Terry - this is by far my favorite bouquet ever! (I'll post a picture later.)

Ok, now for the small town part: When this beautiful bouquet arrived at my door - I was in the middle of bathing our 7 month old son, Benjamin. Our five-year-old son, Caleb answered the door. I could hear the person at the door talking to Caleb - and recognized the voice of a woman who attends our church - whom I know works at the flower shop. Being the ever-attentive mom that I am, I didn't leave the baby in the tub - or get him out and wrap him in a towel - and go to the door. Instead, I hollered for Dana to come bring the flowers to the bathroom - which she promptly did. My beautiful, huge arrangement was gently placed on the bathroom counter, and we discussed child rearing (her boys are all grown). Afterwards, she showed herself out. I LOVE living in a small town!

The Absent Blogger

I struggled with starting a blog because I didn't want to be the absent blogger. And here I am, four months after my last post - picking it up again. I guess it's ok - because I haven't told anyone that I even have a blog - so for now it's just me that I'm disappointing.

So what am I going to do about it - to fix the absent blogger syndrome. (1) Set some blogging goals - (a) tell some people I have a blog; (b) find a subject I really like to write about (small town life). I recently started running and have found it's much easier to be motivated if I have a goal - like a race to prepare for - so I'm going to apply the same concept with blogging.

Ok now that that's out of the way, I'm going to start a new post - a fresh start!