People have been noting my blogging spurt this month. Part of it is the new design inspiring me, but also a little PMS. :) Women, maybe you have the same problem. My brain tends to get more active right around “that time” and less so immediately before and after.

Anyway, I’m having trouble finishing any of the ten drafts I have in queue, so here are some of the random things that came up this week.

1. When you know someone in person, you’ve seen their face, heard their voice, then you’re much closer to really knowing them. The Groom teases me when I say something like My friend from online…, saying, Yeah, sure, your ‘friend’, uh huh… but there are a number of people who I do consider friends in that they are people I talk with regularly either via chat, email, on the phone, or even Twitter, which is sort of like public chat.
   
   Then this week Michael Montgomery was visiting family here in my tiny little city and we were able to meet for an hour or so. He brought his wife and daughter, I brought the kiddos (Groom had to work), and it was nice, putting a face to a name and getting to know his speaking style (to match it up with his writing style). I feel like I “get” him a little better now than I do some of my other online friends.
   
   Likewise, I feel like I know Jesus from what he said in the Bible. I talk to him myself nearly every day, and yet, until I meet him face-to-face, there will always be something missing. I’ll always misinterpret something he says and I’ll never know for sure what he’s really like until I meet him in person. And you know, I think meeting him will be even more enlightening than meeting a friend from the web, and I can’t wait!

2. AJ has a batch of suckers left over from Valentine’s Day that have phrases on them. She held one up to me and asked, What’s You ate me? I looked closer and saw that what she saw as an 8 was actually an & symbol. And sometimes we misinterpret the “symbols” God writes through the Bible. People argue over the symbolism, some even believing that some things are or are not symbols at all. I tell AJ she can read it as “you 8 me” if she wants to because I’m pretty sure the world isn’t going to stop spinning if she does.

3. On Wednesday I took the kids out on a “field trip” to Joann Fabrics. AJ has been having trouble listening following directions lately so I decided we should make a schedule. We were getting some poster board, stickers, and things when I discovered that although I had spent 20 minutes packing the diaper bag, including everything we needed, right down to the Tide to Go pen, I had forgotten the diapers.
   
   So I was thinking, do I pack the kids back in the car, find a grocery store, unpack them, get diapers, pack them up again, go back to Joann, unpack, then get back to shopping? Do I just go home and scrap Joann? Or try to come back after going home?
   
   I felt like this was how my relationship with God has been. I forget to take the time to be with Him before my day starts and it’s more difficult to get back to Him when I need to later. Just as I was weighing the distance between home and the store to decide what to do, I often weigh my need for God against the chaos of the day and realize I just don’t have time for Him, when the reality is, I just don’t feel like “driving all the way back home” to be with Him.

4. The Groom takes a baby (or two) for me when he gets home from work so I can have a break. One night I went down to the basement (his “man cave” as he calls it) and he was watching TV–not the problem. The problem was, he had put the baby in a bouncy chair facing the TV (not him). It reminded me of the times I spend on the computer and I realized… years from now I’ll regret the moments I didn’t spend talking to or playing with my kids, but I can’t imagine I’ll even remember that blog post I never finished or that thing I didn’t have time to send to Twitter.

With that, I’m getting off the computer now.