Bits and Bobs

I don't look at my blog the way you look at my blog. Deep thought, no? Um, no. I mean that literally.

I get my comments through my email, and I spend all my allotted evening blog time on my Blogger dashboard, typing and deleting, typing and deleting, until I finally say, Crap! It's eleven o'clock so I better just hit "publish" and be done with it.

And here you thought that it took such time and skill to craft the posts to which you have become accustomed.

All that feverish typing and deleting leaves me little time for clicking through to check out my blog from the front, the way the rest of the web sees it. I should really make more time to do that because I took a gander at my sidebars and I've got some things to re-jigger.

(Is that a word? Re-jigger? I feel like it's a word, but if it's not a word, then it should be.)

(I just hit spell-check and the word re-jigger passed inspection, so I think it's a word. Feel free to use it as you wish.)

So while I'm puttering around and putting the blog house in order, I need to thank Laura from Catholic Teacher Musings. She gave me an award and I am the total ingrate who never said a word of thanks here. Can blog awards be revoked? Oh, I hope not because I heart them. Thank you, Laura.

She gave me this:

It's a gold card! Woo-hoo! And I get to give away five of these babies. I feel just like Howie Mandel on "Deal or No Deal". Except with way more hair.

Rules ('cause there are always rules):

You may choose 5 awardees

Choose 4 faithful readers of your blog.

1 should be someone new or someone far away.

Here are my picks:

Amy from RC Mommy, because she was the one who urged me to start this blog, and Barb from SFO Mom, who was one of my first commenters (maybe the very first?) Thanks for being here from the beginning, Ladies!

Val from Nothing, Really, and Barbara, from Praying For Grace, because they always have something nice to say and it warms the cockles of my heart. Whatever they are.

And finally, One More Equals Four is relatively new to The HomeFront, and she is definitely far away.

Enjoy all the perks a Blogging Friends Gold Card can get you, but don't max out!

Moving right along in the Random Report, we have gratuitous boy child pictures.

Here is Bun in all his seven month glory. Doesn't he look enormous? That's because he is. He is pudgy and squishy and snackable, especially his chins. Rob has decreed that we should call him Thurston Jowl III.

This is what happens when you try to take an artsy photo of a mobile baby. You get mauled by Thurston Jowl III.

Here's Skeletor Fiver with his birthday cupcakes. I feed him. Honest.

Well, hello there. Fancy meeting you here.

Gah. Just looked at the clock and it's eleven o'clock. You know what that means. Time to hit "publish," for better or for worse. Or for mediocre.