Changes in Store

Welcome again from those from Sew Mama Sew. The giveaway post is below, so just scroll down. Please feel free to look around my blog though! And follow me if you want to keep up on all that’s going on!

I know mid-giveaway isn’t the best time for changes, but working on some changes in my blog has also been on my to-do list. I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but I’ve noticed since I’ve started the blog 2 years ago, that it has grown. I have a few regular readers, and I’ve opened my mind up to the number of topics that I’m interested in, and that I’m interested in writng about.

It still is primarily a family blog, and “most” parts of our family life. One thing that I’ve tried to be careful of is my family’s safety on the internet. It started out just sharing tidbits and pictures for my family who lives so far away. Now I have followers who I have never met before.

I like the readers, and I don’t want them to go. However, it makes me aware of how careful I need to be. Some steps I’ve already taken, is to not name our specific location. Sure, most people know the state, and that’s no secret. Further than that, I’ll even delete comments that name the city near us.

I’ve tried to delete any references to our last name as well, but then I saw the fundamental error that our last name was in our blog address. So I started thinking of a new domain address. It’s taken us awhile, but Knut and I finally decided last night. (I first thought of just using “lifeonthefarm.com” since it’s available, but apparently that address has a minimum bid of $2,500. Ha! They wish.) So I’m changing the title of our blog as well. Because it’s fun. I’ll probably actually change the header tomorrow, as I’m still working on some possible new graphics.

Do you want to know our new name?

He Sows, She Sews

Cute, huh? Our new address is currently being set up as www.hesowsshesews.com
Don’t worry, if you use our old address, it will always automatically redirect you to our new address. You don’t have to do anything new. You won’t lose us.

Other changes are being made here and there, but they aren’t major, and if they are important, I cue you in on them. I’d ask our friends and family on the world wide web to continue trying to respect our efforts to keep our family safe out here. It allows us to keep being open with you.

And just because you are all so awesome, here’s some new pictures of my little ones:

This one’s not so little! Since she’s a summer birthday, she gets to celebrate her half birthday at school. Since that’s over winter break, her teacher fit her half birthday celebration in yesterday. She got this lovely crown, and some cool pencils. She was really excited. Isn’t she getting so big!

David has been jealous of Silje reading all the time, and has finally shown in interest in learning to read. I’ve found I need to teach him things while he is eating, though. That’s the only time he’s not running. I bring the wipe board to the kitchen, and we go over words. He’s getting good surprisingly fast! We were working on “David likes” sentences and writing words of things he likes. One sentence I wrote was “David likes speed.” He immediately corrected me. “Mommy, I don’t like speed. I am speed.” I stand corrected.

Another update on him. He announced to us last night that he does not only intend to be a race car driver when he grows up. He intends to be both a race car driver and a cowboy. He’s going to be busy!

And this little guy is crawling and climbing everywhere! He also recently started signing back to me the words “more”, “milk”, and “all done”. He’s a few months behind when Silje and David started signing, but part of that, I think is I haven’t been working with him on it as much. His attitude is almost always cheerful, and he babbles all day long. If only you could hear our facinating conversations!