Technical Difficulties

Sooo, I'm really not posting for lack of trying, I promise. I really do want to post. I want to get this silly blog up-to-date. But forces beyond me are interfering. First the internet went out in the hotel on two separate occasions when I was going to post. Then, at the end of our trip to Hawaii the weirdest thing happened to my computer. The "clicker" (not sure of the technical term) for my track pad was no longer working. I could move the cursor around with my finger on the track pad, but I couldn't select anything. I plugged in a mouse and tried again and nothing! I could move the cursor with the mouse, but couldn't select anything. So I'm not sure what's wrong with the computer, but it will have to make a trip to the Apple store for a check-up.

Right now, I'm typing on the old laptop we set up for the girls to use as "their" computer. But none of my pictures are loaded on it and I haven't backed up the last several months of our personal pictures (if I have taken photos of you, don't worry, I do have a backup of all those photos). So yes, I can post on here. But I can't attach photos right now and let's all be honest here, the photos are the best part (even though I tend to subject you to long posts of my ramblings, which I know you all love). So I think I may go ahead and write up some posts that I wanted to do and then add the photos later. Not sure if I'll "publish" the posts before I add photos or not. Anyone have an opinion? Do you want posts even without pictures for now? Or just wait to read everything until I can attach photos again?

And cross your fingers that I don't lose all my information off my computer. That's happened to me once before with my current laptop and I'd prefer to not go through that again. So stay tuned. (Are you sick of me saying that yet?)

In the meantime, have you checked out my book blog lately? My friend Allison and I are constantly updating that and we are hosting a book giveaway right now! Hop on over and check it out! Enter the contest if it interests you. And for those of you who have smaller children, we'll be reviewing Anna Dewdney's newest book Llama Llama Misses Mama next month and hosting a giveaway of that book so be sure to check back and enter for a chance to win a copy.