A new idea!

I thought this would be fun. A way to keep in contact with all of you: family, friends, strangers even? This will be my journal, picture place, and just a quiet spot where I can share what is going on.

Life just seems so crazy right now. Some days, I get to the 5pm, and I can not figure out what I have done the last eight hours. I feel like I have not relaxed, accomplished anything concrete, and damn in the kitchen is a mess, and I have not returned phone calls either! Whew! That is where this "blog" comes in. Maybe this will help me to find some order, and maybe even keep better in touch with those I haven't called back because Masie has crawled off with the phone. Well, crawl may be overkill. She scoots... "commando crawls" Either way, she makes her way across the room and often towards things she should not have. So, now I am chasing.

Heath and I have our hoilday plan! Thanksgiving in Winter Park and Christmas in Roanoke. I have not told Masie yet that she has to get back into the car. :)

Not much else to report today. Our playgroup is today, and I can not wait to see all of our friends. I love getting together with these wonderful moms! I feel so understood when I am talking to them.

This is so much fun that I think I will keep rambling. After all, look at my title, diatribe... hmmmm. I made a delicious beef stew last night that I got from a book called, Home Cooking. It is mostly memoir and conversation with recipes dispersed throughout. It is by Laurie Colwin and like talking to an old friend over a cup of coffee. I love it. I have been cooking all week.

Garland, my sister and I, went for a walk the other day and had great political discussion. I have no idea who I will vote for. The fiscally conservative and socailly liberal people are like boats between 2 massive shores, and neither shore looks terrible good, but, then again, neither does drowning.

Okay, I'll stop now, but please leave me a message here so I know you were by.

Love,
Marie