Saturday, July 26, 2008

To Our Readers

We interrupt our programming to take a quick moment to thank all of our readers who have been so incredibly patient with our delayed blogging efforts. Many of you have taken the time to actually compliment us on our ability to keep up the blog as well as we have (you guys are AWESOME) and we wanted to let you know how much we appreciate it!

The last few months have obviously been insanely busy and we are only now beginning to find our groove.

I have found that during the day, if I am VERY lucky, I will have a two hour window when both babies are sleeping. It's during this time frame that I have the opportunity to do things that would otherwise be difficult with the presence of two little ones.

I can:
  • Shower and get ready for the day

  • Eat

  • Work on laundry

  • Write thank you notes (which I am sadly behind on)

  • Prepare dinner

  • Plan a grocery list

  • Pick up the house - Norah's toys seem to find new homes throughout the house, usually where I won't see them and will trip over them!
  • Clean the house (hahahaha)
  • Try to get Justin's/Norah's/Our room under control

  • Pay bills

  • Work on blog

  • Catch up on correspondence

  • Nap (hahahahaaa!)
Obviously not all of this can be done in that 2 hour period, and in fact, most of it doesn't get done. Unfortunately, the blog seems to always fall at the bottom of the list! So my time to work on the blog is usually in the very early hours of the morning (around 3am) after Justin eats and has gone back to sleep. Then when Jeff gets home in the evening and we have both babies asleep we work on it together.

The process was slowed down considerably by an internet connection that only wanted to work some of the time, and was impossibly slow when there was a connection. Thankfully it has picked up and we can actually work on-line for more than a few minutes before the connection is lost. Considering we sometimes couldn't get 3 continuous minutes of service, and it takes 10-20 minutes uninterrupted to upload a 2 minute video, it's a miracle we have anything updated.

So. Now that we have the internet up and running (at least walking at a fast pace), and are getting into the swing of things, our goal is to be much better at keeping the blog updated. Well, it's a goal anyway.

Once again we thank everyone who has been so patient and look forward to sharing the craziness with you!

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