Odd title I know, but check this out:These two are planning  another sneak attack on little ole me as I try to get  a picture of their brood. Believe me it is quite unnerving when these two dive down at me and snap their beaks repeatedly. Their babies are now 13 days old and as far as I can tell, when I'm not being ambushed, there are four nestlings. Momma Bluebird and Papa Bluebird are both feeding them. Obviously, I didn't get the picture of the babies...perhaps later.

     My blogging break was rather short.  Honestly, I made the decision to take a break from this because my children were interrupting me while I was posting entries and commenting on others blogs. I heard myself telling my kiddos, "not now, maybe later" when they wanted to play a game with me. I was getting irritated with their needs and desire for my attention. The girls would watch over my shoulder and ask, "who's blog is that?" I really started to see my behavoir as somewhat pathetic and hypocritical. Hypocritical? Yes, I am bigtime guilty here. I've spouted way too many times to my children that most mothers are selfish and being home 24/7 with their kiddos is not something they desire or aspire to. My seven year old is very insightful and a few weeks ago told me that I spend too much time on the computer and not enough with her. She was right. I was making the choice to spend my time away from her and my other two children. Choosing to blog is not selfish, but blogging while my children need me is. I guess it's really that simple. So I've decided that if I'm to continue to do this I will have to post entries and comment after the children have gone to bed or in the mornings before they get up. I know so many of you have already figured this out, but I can be a little slow at times :-).  Thanks for all the encouragement and prayers...I really have been enjoying getting to know so many of you.

Now something funny:

You know you're a homeschooler when your children fight over whose turn it is to look at the Rainbow Resource catalog. 

You know you're a homeschooler when your four-year-old son voices that he likes Nature better than Nova on PBS. (He watches both)

And now a picture that I recently took entitled, Summer Attitude:   

Blessings, Julie