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Well, I really have nothing of consequence to say tonight, but if you'd like to drop me a sympathy comment, feel free! I haven't felt all that well today--I told Randy I was suffering from a severe case of fatigue--yet now here it is nearing 11:00 and I feel compelled to post SOMETHING before turning in for the night!

Speaking of comments, I have a comment or two I'd like to make about comments . . . blog comments, specifically. (Okay, enough with the comments!) When I started this blog back in January (was it really January? I'll have to go back and check) I did so with the sole intention of recording funny anecdotes related to the kids, cute pictures, etc., in ONE place so that our far-flung friends and family could come to one location to get all the news and I wouldn't have to relate the same stories over and over. I mean, I'm sure you were bored to tears by all the details of Tyler's and Darcy's orthodontic plans . . . imagine my chagrin if I'd had to tell those stories more than once!

But I found that once the blog was in place and I got a few entries under my belt, I started hoping for a little . . . well, more. (No, I'm not channeling Sharpay for all you HSM2 fans out there!) More comments, to be blunt. I found that with every entry I posted that received 0 comments, I increasingly felt as though I were essentially talking to myself.

That's not to say that NO ONE was reading my blog; in fact, I got quite a few e-mails in the early days that kind of pumped me up and gave me the incentive to "keep on keepin' on." There's just something about seeing that big ol' goose-egg sitting there that's just kind of . . . well, embarrassing!

Having said all that, I just want to say THANK YOU to those of you who have been leaving comments on my blog recently, and to those who have e-mailed me with comments related to an entry. Do you know how excited I get when I have proof that someone has actually taken the time to read what I've written? And please understand, I have no illusions about my abilities as a writer; this isn't great literature I'm churning out here! So seriously, thanks for sticking with me!

I know I'm not a great writer but I do very often have what I think are very funny anecdotes about my kids and they're just too good to keep to myself. For instance, did you know that Sawyer can identify, on sight, a snowplow, street sweeper, cement mixer, garbage truck, car carrier, freight truck, tanker, tractor-trailer, logging truck, airport fire truck, ladder truck, rescue truck, small fire truck, special equipment truck, pumper truck, grader, paver, scraper, roller, giant front-end loader (not to be confused with the run-of-the-mill, plain Jane front-end loader, make no mistake), forklift, bulldozer, truck loader crane, site dumper, giant dump truck, backhoe, wheeled excavator, track excavator, giant excavator, concrete crusher, racing truck, heavy tow truck, mobile crane, monster truck, van, farm truck, pickup truck, farm loader, all-terrain vehicle, tractor with baler, tractor with plow, tractor with manure spreader, tractor with trailer AND tractor with forklift? And now, since I've looked at this truck book with him 4,000 times, so can I!

If these are the kinds of stories that make your day, then this is the blog for you. I've got a million of 'em!