A Blustery Day...

Yesterday after work, Jim called and he had been invited to go fishing on the river with a co-worker on his boat, and he invited me to go with them.

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It sounded kind of fun, but after my boating adventure last year, I am leary about jumping on a boat with just anyone... and I am totally a safety girl now. No standing in the boat while it's moving, everyone has to have a life vest on, etc.

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Jim assured me the guy was really safe and it would be a great fun time.

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So he packed up the fishing gear and I grabbed the camera and some water and snacks, and antibacterial hand wash (fish are gross) and we were off.

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I had been hearing of severe weather watches on the news all day, and lightning, and flood alerts, but really hadn't seen anything but a few clouds and sunshine.

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About 10min. from our house... this storm came blowing in.

I have only seen a storm blow in THIS FAST one other time on the Oregon coast.

Obviously we turned around and headed back home, via the golf course where Jacob was out playing a round. Just to make sure the kid had the right mind to come in out of the rain and the lightning! (you never know with teenagers... and he hasn't gotten to play all week, so he might just take his chances for the opportunity to play... YES even with a club acting as a lightning rod in his hand... don't put anything past this kid and his golf game).

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It was kind of funny when we swung by the golf course, there were men running to their cars from about every direction. Finally we see Jacob walking with his head down, so disappointed, but getting out of the rain and lightning.

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We all made it home safe and watched the blustery day from inside.

All is well!

Back online...

When I found myself awake at all hours during the night... still thinking about my blog. I knew something was gonna have to give.

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I didn't want to admit that I was having a little too much fun on other sites or that I might have been getting lax in monitoring my time on the computer; but I never really had to... Jim came to me and confessed he over reacted and NEVER meant for me to stop posting on my blog. He even went into detail about how much he KNEW it meant to our families to have that glimpse into our family when they are so far away.

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So I am back... but private now!

I might have been putting too much thought into what others thought about my blog... and had gotten away from it being just a journal for me... and letting my family take a peak at it.

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So by invitation only... I don't have to think about that so much, and can go back to why I originally started blogging.

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I learned a few things through this process...

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Always listen and take into account council from the patriarch in your family (even if you don't want to admit it, they might be correct)

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I love to blog and have this history of a journal of our family life.

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Sometimes it takes a big effort to stay in touch with family, but it is always worth it.

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Complete and honest communication in a marriage is the only way to honor it.

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Jim loves me and appreciates who I am and the sensitive things in my heart.

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Satan is tricky, sneaky and sly and he will take really good things and use them against us when we let our guard down.

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Moderation in ALL things... that is really good council.

The End

Well I am going to back off of my blog.... I may post photos for my family here now and then... but probably won't be posting every week anymore.

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I didn't think it was a distraction to me, I thought I was balancing it in my life well; but my husband feels differently. It is sad, he never read my blog he might not ever read it... but feels I spend too much time on it.

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I am not sure how I feel about that, but I am going re-focus my attention and see how that works. I guess if you want to know what is happening in my life you will have to call me and chat the old fashioned way!

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Back to the old fashioned paper journal... hmmm this should be interesting!