I’ve had some comments and emails asking me what has been going on with me lately.  I haven’t been posting as often and I haven’t been leaving hardly any comments at all.  So, I thought I should explain.

First of all- I have decided to make this blog mostly a personal blog.  That means that you probably won’t be seeing very many paid posts on this blog.  If an offer comes along for the right amount of money, I will do the job.  But, for the most part I will only be using this blog for fun.  So, while I used to post several times a day because of the paid posts I haven’t been doing that lately.  (I am still doing it, just primarily on Our Happy Happenings- my meme blog).  Another reason you don’t see me posting here as much is that I’m doing more posting on Our Crafts ~N~ Things.  I used to only post there maybe a couple of times a week but Hailey has really started to enjoy doing crafts and we’ve been doing them everyday.  So, I have a lot more crafts to share and have been posting there almost everyday.

As far as my commenting goes- I have started to put things into perspective.  The reason I started my blog was to keep track of what we were up to.  And to keep our family and friends up to date.  Somewhere along the line I got obsessed with trying to get a lot of comments on my blog.  And in order to get a lot of comments, you have to leave a lot of comments and it can get time consuming.  There have been nights I have stayed up well past midnight trying to catch up on commenting back to everyone who left me a comment.  And you know what?  I can’t do it anymore.

Bloggy friends have come and gone over the last year and a half that I have been blogging.  Some people that I thought I just had to visit everyday (people I don’t even know) have stopped blogging.  I’ve been thinking about it a lot lately- the chances that people who comment on my posts today will still be visiting my blog in a year are pretty slim.  Some of you will still be around, but for the most part it seems like people generally move on.

All of that to say this- in 10 years it won’t really matter if I read your blog or left you a comment.  What will matter is that I was there for Hailey to read her a book or to build a tower with her.  She’s the one who matters and time is going by way too fast for me to spend precious moments in front of my computer that could be spent with her.

I will still be blogging, but for the reason I started to begin with- because I want to.  And of course I still love to get comments, so please still leave me comments.  And I will still leave you comments because I enjoy reading your blogs and seeing what you and your families are up to- many of you I consider to be my friends.  But, I have already been cutting way back and I won’t be commenting everyday anymore.  If I have time while Hailey is napping or after she goes to bed I’ll be by to visit.  But, if not- I won’t- and I hope you understand.

A few weeks ago I posted about A Little Weekend Fun and told you about how Wendy’s messed up our food for our picnic.  Well, Wendy’s gave us a gift card to make up for our bad experience.  So, we decided to re-do the entire evening.

We stopped at Wendys picked up our food (checked it before we left) and headed off to the park.  We ate our food, that was made correctly by the way.  Hailey didn’t eat much because she was much too worried about feeding her nuggets and fries to the birds and squirrels. 

Afterwards Hailey wanted to ride the carousel which she did without throwing a tantrum afterwards.  Then we fed the ducks and headed over to the toddler playground.

Hailey loves the swings and never wants to get off.  She doesn’t really look like she is loving it…

…but when Rich asked her if she was ready to get off-  this is her saying “Nooooooo”

Hailey loves going on the slides too.

Things seemed to be going perfectly- our food was right, Hailey was being good… then it happened- a bird flew over me and pooped right on my head.  Yup- you read that right.  The funny thing is that I had a dream a few nights before where that actually happened.  I think I need to plan my dreams a little better if they are going to be coming true.

So our evening was cut a little short since we went home so I could shower and wash my hair 2 or 3 or 15 times.

I know my posting lately has not been like it usually is.  I’ve been busy and not having much time to use my computer lately.  If I’m not posting here- make sure you check out Our Crafts ~N~ Things to see what Hailey and I have been up to, I’ve been posting there every day.

Anyhoo- last weekend was an absolute blast.  We were able to spend the weekend at my parents house with my cousin Beka and her hubby and their daughter, and my parents of course.  When Beka and I were younger we had lots and lots of fun together.  As we’ve gotten older, married and now have our own kids it’s so hard to get together.  It seems like we only see each other during the holidays and at weddings when it’s too busy to really have time to chat.  So, when Beka had the idea that we spend a weekend together I was thrilled!

We arrived at my parents house on Friday night.  My dads job was having a family night- so he took all of us to that.

Hailey loved the bouncy fun things they had.

This is Beka’s daughter- Anika looking cute as can be while we were eating some of the yummy food.

There were some fun cars to see- and Rich wanted to pose with Herbie.

Saturday we spent most of the day hanging out at my parents house- talking and letting Hailey and Anika “play” together.  The “playing” consisted of Hailey trying to make sure she kept all of her toys away from Anika.  Since Anika is a year younger than Hailey- she is still in the stage where doesn’t really care.  But we definitely have some work to do with Hailey on learning how to share toys.

Anyhoo- Beka bought the girls adorable matching outfits and we tried to get them to cooperate and pose for a picture.

Aren’t they cute?  Now if only we could get them to smile.  (The mark on Hailey’s arm is her tattoo from Friday night)

I think they’re sharing a special cousin moment here, while enjoying their crackers and refusing to cooperate with their mothers for a picture involving smiling.

Awww- a nice little hug.

And some fun together in the pool.

It was a fun weekend seeing my parents and Beka, Bill and Anika.  We have to do it again soon!

I absolutley love this stage that Hailey is in.  Yes, of course she has her moments of screaming and crying, but for the most part she is just so much fun.  She makes me smile and laugh every single day.  The last couple of weeks her new thing is that all boo-boos much be kissed.  Even if it is just something simple like a slight bump on her hand.  She holds out her hand and says “Kiss it.”

The rule applies to me too.  If I say “ouch” then Hailey will follow up with “Mommy hurt?” and when I show her where I am hurt she says “kiss it” and gives my boo-boo a kiss.

So the other day Hailey fell down and landed on her bottom.  She came to me and said, “Hurt butt.”

“You hurt your bottom?  How did that happen?”  I asked her.

“Fall down.”  She answered

“Are you okay?”  I asked.

“Hurt butt,” Hailey responsded as she turned around, stuck her little bottom out and said, “Kiss it.”