If I Need to Smile (or Dance)

I watch this video. My love for JT is well-known, and when you add Jimmy Fallon to the mix doing hip-hop it's a great big 'ol cute sandwich. Terri F., if you're out there, I think of you when they get to the DMX portion. I also love the guy at about 5:45 rocking a neck brace.

Current Obsession

Occasionally my mind gets fixated on an object, kinda' like a scratched CD that keeps skipping. And like the scratched CD that you continue to tolerate because you love the song, I allow the fixation to fester because there is something satisfying about it. Weird, I know. Most often the objects of my obsessive fascination are of the fashion variety, but they can often be pieces of furniture, houses, craft supplies, you name it. This week I am haunted by this dress:

WTF? Where would I wear a leather dress? In the carpool lane at preschool?? I don't know, but I can't stop looking at it.

A Little Prayer

I've written several times in years past about our love for the Indiana State Fair, and yesterday morning we debated about catching the fair train again and going for the day, but decided to try and go today instead. Last night a tragic accident happened during one of the fair concerts, and 5 people lost their lives and many others were seriously injured. I've been saying some little prayers all day for those people and their families, and also for the people who work so hard every year to organize the fair.

I Feel Your Pain, Man

A year after reconstruction surgery and I'm still having these conversations, albeit with surgeons and nurses not strangers.

Oops, I Did it Again

I did it again. I fell off the face of blogger-earth and left the blog to collect cobwebs for a few months. My apologies. A good friend called the other day after noticing my absence here and on facebook and wanted to make sure I'm still here. Which I am. Again, every so often I find myself so busy living life that I don't make the time to write about it, and I actually think that's a pretty normal and healthy thing. But if you enjoy reading about my children pooping in random places and other adventures of the Alderman gang, then I guess no posts for several months can get pretty annoying. Or perhaps I've just been driving around the Whole Foods parking lot looking for a space for the past four months.





What has kept me away from the keyboard? A little of this:

OAR concert at White River, one of several shows we've caught this summer

There was ALOT of planning and packing and traveling and walking and magic enjoying involved with this:

Our first family trip to Disney in June

And then there has been a little of this tossed in:

This is our house. Now its for sale. Please consider buying it. 

We decided to put our house on the market because we found another house that we like, and we have been subsequently bit by the new house bug, and now I'm trying to keep this place clean all the time while the kids simultaneously try to destroy it.

So, yes. We've had a little going on around here. But I'm going to try to get back to being a little more consistent here, because in all honesty, I miss it too. I like documenting all the little funny things as well as the big crazy things that happen to our family. But just to give a heads-up, I have to run to Whole Foods tomorrow, so it may be another four months before I get back here.