It’s 7pm, the boys are down for the night and Joel might not be too far behind.  All is quiet and peaceful.

Ever since Nicholas and Dexter’s last growth spurt which equated to being able to reach just about anything, with the exception of the kitchen counters (if you shove something back far enough), our cameras have been stowed out of their reach and out of our reach.  You know what this means?  One – a camera is never handy for the classic Nicholas and Dexter moments.  Two, we have to rely on Malin’s camera, because everything is new to her and she documents life here really well, and three, we then have to wait until Joel finds time to download all of our most recent photos and place them in the blogs for me.

You see, I’m not on Facebook and I don’t get to spend a lot of time at the computer at home.  Thus, my ability to upload pictures into our blog is extremely rusty.  This is not something I do at work and thus can’t easily translate those skills to home.  After asking Joel repeatedly how to upload pictures for over a year, I finally documented the process (Boeing has taught me well on how to document processes) and placed it in easy reach of the computer.  Joel then reorganized the den, uploaded new software, and I”m back to square one.  He did show me the new processes and it looked totally slick and easy.  Just one problem – my memory is shot and I can’t remember anything anymore.  Only when we are both in a happy and non-frustrated place, can we actually teach each other how to do something.   Tonight is not one of those nights.  Both of us are suffering from sleep deprivation – Joel had insomnia last night, the boys are teething (back molars coming in and thus they are not so happy sleepers), and after all the commotion, I couldn’t fall back asleep.

Future blog posts will include pictures and in fact, Joel has some already to roll.  All I have to do is create the story to tell.  Then there are other stories – like Dexter’s most recent head wound (I swear we need to get him a helmet – his poor huge head is not going to last long at this pace) and the great toy sort that we will have to steal pictures from Malin.

So, in the meantime, just because we’ve fallen off the photo count, it’s really not our fault.  Nicholas and Dexter love technology (after all, they are Joel’s sons).  If there is a remote, a camera, a cell phone, or a computer in sight, they pounce and you’re downloading a huge file onto your phone, they’ve reprogrammed your computer (or shut it off entirely like Dexter did to Dr Suzuki’s computer at our last doctor’s visit), the settings are all changed on your camera and there are photos of interesting things, or your TV has been programmed to tape every episode of Sponge Bob Square Pants.

I think I’ll go relax now.  Joel has gone to bed and the house is all mine.  What shall I do?  What shall I do???????

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