Life is Too Short

I got this flyer in the mail the other day. I laughed and threw it away. All weekend I kept thinking about it and about what other things in life are too short to do. I agree that life is too short to clean the house, but really it has to be done.

I have experienced several events in my life that have made me realize that life is short and to enjoy it while we have it. I am trying to be better about making each moment last and not putting off things for later.

Life is Too Short:
to not go to a movie during the day and eat a bucket of popcorn
to not go on vacation everytime the opportunity arises
to not play a game with Jacob when he asks
to not go on long walks
to not eat a piece of delicious chocolate cake a friend brings over
to not read a good book in the afternoon (preferrably in my hammock)
to not stay after a Jazz game with Brandon to get player autographs
to not eat good food (hmmmmmm food keeps coming up)
to not read Jonah as many books as he wants
to not have a long conversation with a friend
to not be there when someone needs me
to not rub Bryan's shoulders when he asks
to not sing along whenever a song is playing
to worry about what might happen

The list could go on and on. Today I am going to take advantage of every opportunity that arises. O.K. maybe I am dreaming, but I will at least try to enjoy the journey!

Creating a Blog

So my friend Tiffany convinced me that I needed to start a blog. The main reason being that I don't keep a journal. I used to faithfully write in my journal, then I got married and have written a dozen or so times since. Now I will have all sorts of things recorded in my blog and I won't have to write in a journal, yea!!!

Tiffany came over yesterday to help me set up my blog. We started out by creating the web address. I came up with a great name, Ourmundanelife. It was available we thought we were so clever and next started working on the title of my blog. We finally settled on Life With Boys. So then Tiffany starts doing funky things and trying to make my blog cute. I was getting Jonah lunch or Ellie crayons or something else while she worked away on my blog. Well soon she realizes that she has somehow put my blog into hers, I don't have a clue what happened. She ends up having to delete the blog we have just created. No big deal we will just start over. Well we go back to name the web address and my creative ourmundanelife was not available anymore. I know the story is getting long, but not nearly as long as it took us to come up with a new name. We tried a million different names. We were laughing so hard, Jonah was laughing at us, Ellie and Joshua were wanting to go home. Finally I said just pick a name and leave it, or was it Tiffany that said that? Anyways the web address boysandamama was picked. Whew, I was wiped out and we hadn't really done anything. Next step was to change the template to a "cute" one well I won't go on about the process, but I will say another hour or so went by, lots of laughter occured and we just went with the dumb valentine's one even though we couldn't read the font.

So there my blog has begun. I am going to try and record our life a little better than I have in the past. Hopefully I can keep this up!