Posting for the sake of opening lines up...

I am not a good blogger. I like to believe I am still a good friend. We are out and about most weekends with the little one (usually birthday parties, zoo, or the like). We are really lucky that way.

Meanwhile, I read a lot and I have been studying biology. Mr. Boyum, wherever you are, you did a great job teaching my high school class back in 1986-87 school year. I sometimes find myself remembering whole pages of a notebook that I kept for that class.

Eric is studying to get his private pilot's license.

Air Force has issued no news for us, so Eileen is going to stay at the private school that she attends: The Colorado Springs School. A pretty phenomenal school.

If and when I have news, I promise to send it along both here and in facebook, but otherwise, know that I continue to challenge myself and come up with new things for me. This week Eileen and I made slip knot tutus for many friends (okay at least one was a doll).

Bad Blogger, better friend?

So, this blog used to cause me pleasure - and perhaps if you are reading it now, it caused you pleasure. It gave me a forum to note the new cultures into which our Air Force life had allowed us to venture. It allowed me a space to process all that my little friend Eileen was doing. Now, apparently, I am no longer a committed blogger. That doesn't mean that I don't process what Eileen is doing. She is at an awesome school. She is growing and changing still in daily and unexpected ways. She has earned an Orange Belt in TaeKwonDo and is excited for sparring and more belts. I still feel like I am racing to keep up with her. But, now those conversations about how to teach a topic, or what she might be thinking and doing tend to happen with her as a participant. 

I will try to remember that I do have a blog. I will try to keep you up to date. But, along with the return to Colorado Springs - a community I know and love well - came a return to what feels 'normal' to me. So, I don't have as many surprising adventures. Getting lost in anything outside the covers of a good book or a fine conversation is rare.

As is usual, with Eric's jobs, we never really know how long we will last in a location - with commands, we knew it was two years assuming he wasn't fired (which he wasn't). That makes it hard to think about permanent full time work for me. For now at least we are assuming that we are staying put in C. Springs for at least another year. That doesn't mean that things won't change...one thing I have learned from living as an Air Force Wife is that you never throw out the original packaging to your electrical appliances, and a move can happen with little warning.

Meanwhile, I volunteer. I am reading a bunch of nonfiction books - including revisiting some classic South African works...and I try to keep our home and our lives feeling full and fulfilling.

I have added a photo of us that is recent. I am donating that large amount of hair to Locks of Love, but Eileen is keeping hers.

Fall is over??? and I didn't even remember to post

so, the snow started falling....and the cider magically mulled itself...and cookies were baked...and I tried to remember if I had blogged before in this month or not...and I realized something....

I am not blogging, nor do I seem to be reading them much. I have decided to try to remedy that slightly.

So...the good is that I am enjoying the Springs...getting reacquainted with old (and new) friends, enjoying seasons that are not characterized solely by wind speed, keeping our home feeling homey, getting broken things from the move repaired....

The other good news is that I am keeping busy in other ways.

The bad news: Eric is traveling a lot.

And more good news (who needs much bad news) -- Eileen has been thriving. She just got her yellow belt in Tae Kwon Do...parent teacher conferences went great. When we are at home, the neighbor's kid is a bit younger but loves to come play. She is working hard at learning Hebrew and Spanish and Korean. And thus far keeps asking for more to do...rather than a break.