Blossoming as a Rose

Our roses have suffered at my hand this past summer. I haven't given them any attention - no water, pruning...not much of anything. I decided a week or two ago to actually water and prune the poor things - all in the same day even. It rained a couple of days later and just between the two chances at a little moisture, the roses really bloomed. We still don't have as many as we could have if I'd just kept up with it - but, at least we have some pretty flowers and a chance to 'smell the roses' when we're outside. We'll miss having them right outside our window. It's probable that by next summer someone else will get a chance to take care of them. Well, if they decide to keep them.:}

The King and the Castle

Megan just came up to me with a plastic egg (the kind we see a lot of during Easter time). It happened to have a CTR sticker on it. I asked her what it said and the response was - "bunny brought eggs". (I really was expecting a generic answer like...oh I don't know...the letters C - T - R.) I asked her to tell me more and there was an excited explanation about bringing eggs to the King in the Castle!!! She has all the cool jobs - I get to clean bathrooms and she gets to deliver fun items to a castle - complete with a King. The job that seems even harder right now is taking in all of the creative thoughts/actions my children dream up. I'm not sure I take all of it in well enough - there's so much. Childhood goes much too quickly!!

Still Not Pleased

I did a slideshow - obviously. My original intention was to do a bunch of pictures of our family, no music and have it at the side so it wasn't an actual post - just something that could be going while posts were being read. Well...it wouldn't let me do it. The one I just posted has less pictures and music because I had to actually post it!! (I didn't even get to choose MY music - at least not for free.) Life would be a bit easier if technology would do what I want it to. I guess life would be much easier if my husband and children always did what I wanted them to do too. I'll let you know if I ever get any of it figured out - technology or otherwise.

Make a Smilebox slideshow

Pet Peeve #2

I just don't like it when I insert a graphic and all I end up with the next day is a question mark where the graphic used to be.  Anyone know what to do about that?  Do you just redo?  Delete?  Do it a different way? Try a different graphic?  

I decided to try just one more option on the music in a slideshow topic. I downloaded Smilebox.  They tell me I can use iPhoto and my very own iTunes.  We'll see if that's really true or not.  The other options/programs I've looked at didn't even give me the choice.  

Wish me luck!