Blogging

Quiet around here. The window is open and I can hear distant thunder. Cooler temps are blessing me. Skies are grey and wind is blowing. Leaves are flying off the trees and I am relaxing while lil miss is asleep on the sofa during her nap time. It's raining. The rain is pitter patting down through the trees.

I have been praying. Taking a deep breath while I can. A hot chocolate would sure taste good just about now.

What will I do if I am blessed to gain my strength back and my health improves? This waiting for surgery and wondering if I will be a healthier me by Christmas has me pondering.

I am enjoying sitting in my oversized club chair in the familyroom and blogging. Modern technology has its place. So do memories. 10 years ago I wouldn't have thought about blogging.

Once we moved to Manhattan, Kansas from Jenks, Oklahoma in 1999 I became the president of a local Christian Women's Club and went knee deep into commitment with duties that I thought I had lost all confidence in doing. Long story short, I was designing Invitation cards. My sweet husband helped me get familiar with computer lingo to put cards together. We'd look for graphics to place on the cards via computer, arrange the wording, print out the master copy and go to Kinkos to have them make real invitation cards that were for handouts.

Mercy sakes...how time flies...that was 11 years ago.

A jumbo seed was planted in me when I would have late night COMPUTER dates with my hubby. We'd go get one of those fancy coffees and then go to his office to sit in front of a huge desk top computer researching the net for fun. A computer for him and three for me!!!

Immediately I got hooked searching the net. Within seconds I was reading all about everything on the planet.

Hooked. The coffee was tasty, the company comfortable and the computer world exciting. We were empty nesters at the time, so a late night computer date was fun, carefree and cheap. Sometimes after we had been at my husband's office for a few hours, we'd go eat early morning Breakfast and then go home for the week-end.

BUT WHEN a laptop computer came home, I was beyond intrigued...I was elated! I was ready to be using this device that made me a part of cyber world. We had to dial in for service. But you know what? That aweful white cable attached from the computer to the phone jack didn't mean jack to me. That was ALRIGHT!!! The phone line would be tied up while Deanna plugged away entering the largest Library in the world. Within a few minutes I was surfin' the net!

email captured my interest and my daughter helped me set up an account. Long distance communicating, researching, shopping and emailing was a hit.

By the time we moved to the country in 2005 and needed a website to help advertise our puppies we were going to sale, it caught my interest just how wonderful web pages were. My husband designed ours. It was neat!

Wow.

On the farm, I would sit at a desk in the utility room amongst the laundry piles and surf when I had time. I discovered Christian Blog sites. A NEW WORLD to me. I am very encouraged that there are so many devoted and balanced Christians that pray for revival, our government, all kinds of concerns, right from wrong, salvations, families, right living.

I still enjoy wearing blue jeans and going barefooted while cleaning my house and doing chores. So when I came across blogs where the women wore dresses while cleaning...it got my attention. The high heels and pearls were a bit much.

I was encouraged that in the United States of America I was not the lone House Wife that enjoyed staying home to make a home. The internet with all the neat sights with decorating ideas, baking, cooking, sewing, cleaning, domestic divas, etc. was enlightening.

Autumn 2006...I started shopping by computer the Real Estate Market to see what was out there. That's when I discovered this old stone house we call HomeHaven. One thing led to another and we bought our 1885 two story native limestone house on 3 city lots in a tiny, tiny, dinky town...far far away from the fast pace of modern society. There are days I hear off in the distance Church Bells ringing, birds chirping and children chattering as they walk past our place.

Heavens sakes...the day came I wanted my own blog. This coming December, I will have been blogging for two years. Man, the things I have learned and want to learn. Little 'ole me and blogging.

From Cell Phones to the Internet. Internet to emailing. Emailing to Myspace. Onto Blogging where Facebook wasn't far behind. I haven't started Text Messaging yet on a phone. Hum. Am I behind the times? Hope so.

Back to the drawing board.

~Deanna~