In Transition

The holidays are over, the kids back in school, and things are settling down as much as they ever do around here. I haven't been posting because of the computer. Or I should say, computers. We got a new computer for Christmas. Well, it wasn't really for Christmas, it was just because our other computer has been doing scarey things that let us know it is getting old and can't be relied upon to last forever. We wanted to replace it before it crashed completely and we lost important things. It would also be sure to happen at a highly inconvenient time such as when someone had a term paper due the next day or something like that. The fact is, you just can't live without a computer these days. We didn't have them in our homes when I was growing up, but now they have become a necessity of life. As soon as we got the new one up and running, Niles cleared the main hard drive on the old one to see if that would help with the problems it is having. One of it's issues was that it didn't even recognize that it's two disk drives existed anymore. So we are in the process of reinstalling things on the old computer and getting it running again. The printer is currently not installed on either computer so we can't print anything. The attenae for the wireless card on the old computer broke so we usually can't get an internet connection on the old one--but all of our digital camera software and all of our photos are on the old computer but not the new one. So that makes it impossible for me to post any photos on my blog since I can't access the internet from the computer that has all the photos. So this post is a long, boring explanation for why I am not posting lately!

We had a great Christmas break. Niles was able to take quite a bit of time off work and we really enjoyed just taking it easy--sleeping in, playing with the kids, visiting family. Hopefully soon I will be able to post some photos. Until then, my blog is going to be pretty boring!