today i come back

my goodness. it has been a crazy day. i have decided at the request of a friend, heidi, that i will return to blog-land. at first, my defense was that i had nothing to write. i still feel that way, but i'm giving it a shot, since owen has landed a few good stories lately (not that i remember them now, but with this up and running- i might).

today i had my monthly mom's group meeting. it was fun. i didn't go last month because i had someone working on my broken washer (for the 2nd time in 6 months) and my basement was flooding with the tremendous amount of rain all at once. God works in many ways all at once, i suppose.

i volunteered for a chocolate dessert. little did i know at the time that i would be buying a gargantuous thing of rasberries and would have to consider how to use them all up. anyway- i decided to bring rasberry pie and give my baking skills a hit trying to make it. things were not looking good since yesterday i created this horrendous pot of potato soup and my attempt to make a crust fell extremely flat (or shall i say crumbled). this morning i ran to hiller's, grabbed some pre-made pie crust and booked it back to the house to bake. according to the people who ate the pie, i did well. people asked for the recipe. who can believe that?! that really helped with my self esteem since last night was so, so bad.

anyway- here's my first post. take it or leave it. here's my kid recently. he's cute.