Just the Highlights

I realize I have been neglecting this poor blog terribly.  Events have occurred and they have just gone by without any recognition at all.  Shocking! 

I think part of the issue is that I spend so much time chatting on Etsy and posting pictures on my Flickr account.  Chatting and linking to Flickr are so instant gratification - and you know how I feel about that!  They have been largely satisfying my need to connect and share my daily happenings and new creations.  So this blog has been languishing unloved.

But really, blogging scratches a different itch.  It's not about the instant gratification but about the process.  The process of mulling, imagining, composing and writing down my thoughts, daydreams, ideas, aggravations, loves and losses is ultimately very satisfying.  It must be or I wouldn't have kept in up for almost 2.5 years and 350 posts!  Sometimes I just forget how good it feels.

So, playing a little catch up here and then back to our regularly scheduled blogging.

We had snow!  OK, not what anyone on the East coast would consider snow  or even anyone in Eastern Oregon but still, it's exciting for us valley dwellers who hardly ever get a chance to see the strange white stuff falling from the sky. 

Gabe took the girls up to Silver Falls the next day where they had real snow and they had a big snowball fight with their friends.

On February 2nd, my baby turned 8 years old!  How the heck did that happen?!  Rowan had her two best buddies from school over for sundaes and presents.  She got Heelies from us which made her deleriously happy.  She told me every day for a week prior to her birthday that her birthday just "wouldn't be the same" if she didn't get Heelies.  She skated so much that day that she could barely get out of bed on Sunday!

We also celebrated my niece's birthday which is on the same day as Rowan's.  She is pretty darned funny at the age of three.  My favorite thing she says right now has got to be, "That's fascinating!"

And last but not least, I opened another Esty shop!  Because I am not even a little bit insane and have oodles of free time.  Uh-huh.  That's my story and I'm sticking to it.  I decided that my geeky alter-ego needed her own shop.  She kept demanding to come out and play and make all sorts of odd and quirky things that just didn't seem to fit in my Indigo Luna store.  Plus, I could not resist the name I picked out.  Hence, Blessed Are the Geek was born!  Stop by and see what my nerdy side is making these days.