A blog resurrection...

I realize that there has been precious little action (actually no action if we are to quibble about details) on this blog for several months. And it has actually been declared "dead" by the one follower that we are aware of (Chadwick's mother...aka MamaNeuf/Omi).

But, I have come to declare that the blog is risen. It is risen indeed.

I recently watched the movie "Julie & Julia" (which I would highly recommend if you like to cook and love to eat butter,) and have been inspired to write again. Maybe I should be embarrassed that my inspiration comes from a movie, but despite my desire to be deep, reflective, and well-read, I have to be honest and say that I mostly leave the deep thinking and heavy reading to my husband while I dine on a steady intellectual diet of "Girly" movies and "The Biggest Loser." Then, I just wait for Chadwick to share all his deep thoughts with me so that I can talk about them later even though my information is second hand. It's just one more reason why we make a great team.

So the Neufelds are back...at least one of them (me). I don't have a particular challenge/goal for myself like Julie did in the movie, and I certainly have no aspirations of getting a book deal out of this or having a movie made about our life. I do know, however, that life passes by and, while a person may feel that they will remember the details, emotions, and events of a season, the reality is that it slips away quickly as the next season begins. (I already can't even remember all the specifics from my fourth grade schedule from last year.) I would like to record snippits (is that a word?) of our day-to-day thoughts & activities so that we can remember this stage. I sometimes wish that my mom had written things down so that I could read about the life my family lived when I was growing up. So maybe someday these posts will be a gift to Ilyana. If not, it will be give me a chance to process my current life as a stay-at-home mom who has been a teacher and lives in a high school residence hall. We'll see...

...but Ilyana if you are ever reading this...you'll be happy to know that today, Tuesday, January 12, 2010 you are 5 months & 3 days old. You are wearing a yellow sleeper with hearts on it and sitting on the couch beside me chewing on a pink plastic pretzel. Not to mention sliming everything in sight. Very developmentally appropriate. Good Job.