New Year's Resolution...in August

Well, most of you have probably stopped reading this blog because the last time I posted was in May, and now it's August. But I have a New Year's Resolution (even though it's not a new year), because I think it will be a good challenge for me. I intend to post each day of the week (not weekends) and include a new picture that I have taken each day. This way my family can see my son growing, and I can stretch the kinks out of my unpracticed writing hand and head. I'm hoping that the practice writing and the discipline of using my camera every day will prepare me for some day re-entering the workforce as an independent art-eest.

I will not update you on regular things like the fact that Luke had a bath this morning, and we stayed in bed until 9, or the never-ending laundry. I will try to give you interesting tidbits. So today the most interesting thing that has happened was that while Luke took a fifteen minute nap I got down on my hands and knees and vaccuumed the living room rug with the shop-vac. What can I say...I was desperate. And it is cleaner than it has been since the day I took it out of the package. Maybe I should have included a picture of my clean rug instead of my son in his diaper :) We don't have a vaccuum because we are having central vac installed eventually. Most projects on this house are "eventually" going to be completed, so I couldn't really give you an estimate on how long this might take. And since we don't have much rug it hasn't really been an issue.

But while my Dad was here in July he bought us a shop-vac and jokingly said, "now you have a vaccuum!" as if I would drag that thing into the house and vacuum up piles of sawdust from my dining room floor. We all laughed. But today when I looked at my living room rug and couldn't imagine sweeping it one more time, because each time I sweep I feel like I'm rubbing the dirt in, I took Dad seriously. I dragged the dusty shop-vac in from the garage, put the biggest extension on it that it had, got on my hands and knees and cleaned the rug 3 inches at a time. But boy is it beautiful. Even with our cardboard coffee table sitting on it.

LATER: Luke took a nap on the floor and when he woke up I got this picture of him AND the rug...two birds