I haven’t been posting much lately, and I blame it on Facebook. It is simply too easy to post all I really have to say in 1-2 sentences on Facebook, thus getting off my chest whatever I feel I need to share with the online world! Plus, as a mother to 4, 6 and under, having recently added a small baby to my already busy life, I find that I just don’t have as many consecutive minutes to post thoughts, deep or otherwise on my blog. So here’s what’s been going on in our lives since my most recent post, courtesy of Facebook:
Elaine Emily Lortz…
….needs another day of rest. 8/9/2010
….Because I had dough and chicken I thought it’d be fun to bake a garlic chicken pizza on the grill on my pizza stone. Discovered that I was out of dried basil, the pizza fell apart as I tried to slide it off the pizza peel, the crust got burned, and the pizza stone cracked. Other than that, it was great. 8/8/2010
….feels like the widow of Zarapheth this morning – I used up nearly all of my flour, shortening, and plastic wrap(!) to make a couple of pie shells! 8/3/2010
….decided to go to Honeycomb Kids tomorrow, but doesn’t have bread to make sandwiches for the picnic lunch. So I’m making some. I just mixed it up, but won’t bake it ’til it starts to cool tonight…7/29/2010
….Swimming lessons, reading with Ezra, picked obvious garbage in storeroom and collapsed boxes. Some dishes. Making progress, but now it’s time for iced coffee and a break! 7/26/2010
….why do my blog posts take so long to be imported to Facebook? 7/22/2010
….Picked 7.5 pounds of raspberries with my four kiddos today. 7.5 weeks postpartum. Woo-hoo! 7/21/2010
….decided yesterday to do swim lessons for both boys. Starting today. Aaaahhh! 7/20/2010
….Little Phinehas got his first cold last night. So pitiful. 
7/19/2010
7/19/2010….is looking up pork loin fillets on the internet for cooking ideas… 7/13/2010
….just got home from a trip to Tri-Cities to attend Samuel Lewis Casbon and Valerie M Casbon ‘s wedding! The food was fabulous, and it’s such fun to see people dance who actually know how! So thankful to have been able to be there! 7/11/2010
In more recent news: tonight I fried onion rings for the first time ever. Discovered that thicker batter, rather than making thick, crispy onion rings, makes soft doughy onion rings. So keep it thin, and it’s pretty delicious. Though it makes a terrible mess and is of course, extremely unhealthy. Well, nothing’s perfect!
Also, son #2, Ezra, is at his Grandma and Grandpa’s house for a few days. They came down for the weekend and took him home with them on Sunday. Tomorrow I’ll drive up and meet my mom halfway at Maryhill Museum to get him back. Judah especially will be pleased to have him back, I think. And my mental arithmatic will be back to normal… it messes me up a little to only have to account for 3 kids!
And last but not least, tonight I mopped my kitchen/dining room floor!!! Hooray! Let’s not try to guess how long it’s been since I did that last, shall we?…