Blogging stopped...but life not !!

Blogging stopped for a while as internet is not always that readily available and as fast as we are used to.

And as my son pointed out...you have to live your life first, Mommy, before you can blog about it...!
That is very true.

If one only blogs and dont find the time to go out there and have fun....well, in the end there will be nothing to blog about !

So, here are some of the things we did after the last posting...

splashing around at the pool..

just hanging' out at the beach...

...but NEVER without a camera...

Yes - EVERYONE had one ...

And I mean EVERYONE...EVERYWHERE ....

So, everything got caught on camera..

the goofin' around above the surface....

the goofin' around below the surface.....

But despite having a camera EVERY step of the way...

We could NEVER be as prepared as THIS guy....???!!!

bringing his own tri-pod to dinner in a restaurant to take a shot of him and his date for the evening...

and spending FOREVER to try and set it up..??!!! 

To take just that ONE picture of the two of them...with their self-timer....

Really ????!!!!- he could have just asked us - we take a MILLION photos every day

- one more would not have hurt us..?

Got a little bored at times..

but that happened to everyone around here...

Thank GOODNESS we never got as bored as this guy !!

and when we did...some of us found other ways to keep everyone busy..

Like at dinner time - 

who thought this was for eating??

it's for entertaining your family !!

with the "straw-claw" put to use...

or convincing everyone a paper could be folded 8 ways...

oops, sorry - could not prove it...

it can ONLY be folded 7 times EVER !!!!!

(I did not know that - only learnt that at dinner that night?!)

But mostly we were just hanging out together.... 

just our family....

well..our EXTENDED family

they kind of went EVERYWHERE...

and when they were not tucked away in Mommy's chest for their "nap"

then they were up on the dinner table - RIGHT there next to the TABASCO...

That's right - Tabasco and Aurora goes hand in hand.... 

The great thing about the beach is...

whenever you got too bored....

You could ALWAYS waddle right back into it !!

And on the lagoon's side....

enough pictures in one day ...

is ENOUGH !!!

I said STOP IT !!!

This is my ANGRY face....

Okay... maybe she has a point..

 ENOUGH for TODAY !!!

Will be back.

Blog crawling

I have a million and one things to do...
So many that I don't know what to do next - this is happening quite often lately?!

So, what did I do next? None of the things I am supposed to do.....

I clicked on the "next blog" tab at the top of the blog. How fascinating to see just a few of the ZILLION blogs out there!!!!!!


I wonder if there is a way of COUNTING how many blogs there are out there at the moment. Really awesome to see how much effort people put into the design and content of their blogs.


I am a really late-comer to this phenomena - wonder why...?? Will ponder on that and blog about it later when I come up with the reason why...


But for now - I sometimes wonder if the world really needs one more blog? Should I really write - why not just READ???
If everybody blogs...who then has the time to read them?


And what makes the one better than the other?
Or is there just so many people that care about others, that we will never run out of space for yet another newcomer?


Do people really wanna see pictures of my kids and my drawers in my house and my fridge and my dogs, if there are a million other people whose kids, drawers and dogs they could be looking at??


Or maybe it is just all about ourselves....


every person wants to be heard...


every person wants to have an identity...


every person wants to feel like he/ she matters to the rest of the world.....


every person wants to share what is important to him/ her in our own little world....


or even if no one is listening or reading or following...


it is the creative outlet of having a voice...having a podium from which you can shout out your opinion ..or even very quietly express it ...


but still - you feel like you matter - relevant..... a sense of belonging to one more community..... you finally have a use for the million useless pictures in you digital gallery....and even only for this ONE reason...you have something to do whenever you have so many things to do that you do none of those.

So, there is really no reason ever to be bored again?!

If you dont blog, you can go blog crawling and visit the millions of blogs out there - and you will NEVER..i bet NEVER run out of blogs to read!!!!

I wonder if this will work with my kids next time they say they are bored.....

"oh, just go bloggin' would you????!!!

GREAT IDEA