Shot at... and missed

Hm.

You know your blog posting frequency can be labeled "slim pickins" when it takes 30 minutes to figure out how to log into it. Hence, the title; I gave being "a bona-fide blogger" a shot... and missed. Going to "try, try again."

So, what's new? Just about everything.

* My "small" children are growing bigger. Tank has been heavier than Little Bear for several months. (They wear the same size clothes.) Sugee Boogee isn't far behind her 2 brothers. All are much more fun to play with.

We enjoy tickle-fests several nights per week after I get home from working. Three children is a great number. One gets a right-handed tickling, another a left-handed tickling, and the 3rd... I pity the third... gets a nose tickling. What it is about a nose tickling that makes it so much more potent?

Anyway, they all get tickled &/or dog-piled a few minutes (5 to 15), until Mommy's tired of hearing them or Daddy's tired of dragging them back for more. (Or... until someone decides to "toot" on Daddy! that's an immediate end-of-fun) >=^() Afterward, they (usually) sit and watch me practice my trumpet.

* Work is demanding, as are clients. Even though I've run an "advertising free" business since it's inception, I have to turn down work at least once every week, sometimes every day.

I hate to turn down work, but there are only so many hours in a day... and few of those hours are available for work. (For some reason, people don't want to hear machinery whirring, clanging, and thumping noisily at 3 am. Go figure.)

* Church is different too. I used to teach Boys' Sunday School, Boys' & Girls' Junior church, Wednesday night Kids' Club, ride the van, sing the Sunday morning special music, all the grounds-work, and run the website. I still do most of that, but only help in Junior church, and preach every Sunday night. Don't know why it is, but preaching to adults is a lot harder for me than teaching kids. Hopefully, we'll be getting an assistant pastor soon. One that's training to take over as the new Senior pastor (and hopefully, the current Senior pastor will beat his cancer prediction of 2-14 months).

* Oh yeah... then there's FreeCycle.org. For those of you familiar with Craig's list, think... everything is free!! We've gotten a great entertainment center (has a roll-top over the TV and glass doors for storing lots of stuff), many books, boxes of videos, and even a very large PlayScape! FreeCycle is great!

So, that's a few of the things that are different since I last wrote. Now if I can just remember to blog regularly.