Oh Happy Day!!

This. Just look at this.

 

After taking what seems like forever to get my thoughts in order and find the time to actually decide what I wanted....it's done. The new look of our blog is complete and I couldn't be more happy about it.

 

Thanks to my friend Bryan Gott for bringing the vision of my header to life. It's a perfect depiction of my sweet family. If you are needing any kind of artwork done, he's your guy.

 

And I highly recommend Leslie at Sweetie Baby's Designs as well. She does great work and put it all together so well and did a flawless installation.

 

Yes, I'm staying on Blogger for now. Because I know there are some of you who are wondering. I've found my happy place again.

 

Leave me some comments and let me know what you think. Unless it's bad, then don't.

An Apology

Today, I felt like I needed to write an apology. To my blog. You see, it's been very neglected lately and it's feeling quite abandoned.

 

The downslide started back around mid-November when Girl Twin had her tonsils out. I got wrapped up in taking care of her, not sleeping as much, and got really tired. Then it turned into busy time at work, so I just decided to take a "holiday hiatus" on the blog. After the break in December, I figured it would be a great time to get started on the blog makeover that I'd been putting off for forever.

 

I needed time to research some designs, find someone to make the changes and find an artist to help me carry out my ideas. By then, the blog had been in limbo for so long that I just got lazy. Now, with the start of April, I'm finally ready to get back in the groove. I'm on the work list for a new design and I have just seen the first draft of my new header today. 

 

Poor blog, I know how you've missed downloading and displaying the photos of my family. I know you are wondering what's happened to Fergie's eye. I know you are longing to hear the ridiculous things that my kids are saying to each other. I know you just want me to sit down and TYPE SOME WORDS, DAMMIT!

 

I'm getting there. It won't be long, I promise. Pretty soon you won't look like a random generic Blogger template anymore. You will look pretty and fresh and happy!

 

I can't wait.

I've got a new baby!

HA! Gotcha, didn't I?

It's sort of a new baby.  I just launched a Facebook fan page for this blog.  Isn't that exciting??  Well, I'm excited. It's something I've wanted to do for a while, but you know, I just don't have enough time in my day to get it all done. So I accomplish things in tiny little bits; baby steps, if you will.

Having a Facebook page for the blog will allow me to do lots of things.  I can have more "discussions" with my readers, I can introduce more people to my Party of Five and I can communicate with people who aren't my friends in real life (meaning, people I don't know).  The Facebook page will also be handy when I have a giveaway or important announcement to share.  Or maybe, just maybe, someone in Internet Land will stumble upon all this bloggy goodness and offer me a big fat paycheck for writing.

So go ahead and look me up.  You'll find the new page Bramell, Party of Five on Facebook.  Go "Like" it.  Now.  Or else I will yell at you and make you go to time-out.