Mia and Stacy have great fun playing acrobats.

I doubt that many people visit this site regularly, but I still feel the need to apologize for letting so much time pass between updates. I try to take time monthly, but some months that's easier said than done.

Not that I've been that busy lately, I guess.

Let's see...Mia is crawling now--she started this new trick while I was out of town (of course!). She is not an afficionado, yet, so she still falls a lot, but she somehow manages to really boogie when she wants to (usually to get away from her mommy or me during a diaper change!). Helpful tip: if your baby is crawling, naked, bottom in air, to escape a new diaper, make sure her puppy DOES NOT have access to said child.... I'll leave the reasoning to your imagination.

Aside from the ambulation of baby Mia, most everything else is ambling along as normal.

Not only does Stacy play well with Mia, but she is a great soother, too. As often as Mia is sick, it's a good thing Stacy and I both like to cuddle our baby girl!

If you have any requests for content sometime, feel free to leave comments to direct me. I will always add Mia photos and stories of her cuteness, but we at the clean, well-lighted place (we=just me in a delusional state) are completely capable of addressing news, weather and sports, and a myriad of other topics as well.

See, all I can think of is Tiny houses.

I discovered a website where Jay Shafer sells designs and/or completed structures that are unique, at least to me. Shafer started living in tiny houses back in 1997—and when I say “tiny,” I mean 100 square feet! He has since sold his first house (it was just too much to maintain) and now lives in one that is 70 square feet.

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplifying to the point of being able to live in a 100 square-foot house. If you could see how much crap we have in our garage alone, you'd understand the attraction, I bet. Shafer claims that his houses are kinder to the environment than large constructions--if only because they require none of the clearing and bulldozing that most homesites need--and he says that he thinks of the land outside of his home as part of his home; the surrounding environ would be a very large "room," by that way of thinking.

Yep, I am aware that I am a hypocrite, who rants and rants about the miseries of living in the "tiny" 1450 sq/ft house we have now, but the fuel for that fire is really the house payment for my little house. A Shafer house would set me back closer to 38 to 45 thousand, total, plus the land, I suppose. The houses are really well built, too.

I don't know what it would be like, really, but I do fancy the idea. Check it out for yourself:

http://www.tumbleweedhouses.com/index.htm