hoping this new app works; i miss blogging

had a fun night out with the kids. went to tim and jenny's for jacobs 18th birthday. grilled out and had a fire. kids ran around having a good time. isobel had a cold drink in her hands that made them cold and she would walk around and put her cold hands on someone and laugh when they jumped. she did it about 150 times. pretty funny. angus just keeps growing and developing, picking up new words to say and understanding even more. his little blond curls  and laugh.

life is so drawn out its hard to imagine being an old man watching my kid's kids run around wondering where the time went.... but that's how all old men are. no one can grasp the passage of time. we're all just doing our best to get through each moment.

in case this doesn't get said enough, my kids are really wonderful and watching them run around and play and laugh and find pure joy in the most random thing, wonder in next, it's so refreshing and rewarding.


(this wasn't tonight but i needed to test uploading a picture)

(testing a new blogger app because the official one just disappeared(?) blogging isn't quite the rage that it used to be, but i think there always something rewarding about journaling regardless of the overall purpose. there's someone so fun (and usually embarrassing) about reading back through a log of thoughts and feelings and observances.)