*sigh*

I've been posting pics and video to avoid talking about some depressing stuff going on right now that I can't talk about here. We're all fine, and fairly healthy and I promise to tell you all about it when things are resolved. Hopefully that will be soon. I'll see if I can rouse myself out of this funk in the next few days...

...aaaand we're back!

For a little while at least. We still have several weddings, but they much smaller and easier than this past weekend's wedding was. This one was a biggie. We were really pleased with the way it turned out and had a lot of fun with the bride's theme of pink roses/peonies and pineapples! First time we've ever used mini pineapples. Very classy. You can go here to see the wonderful photographs by Tim and Sasha Rothwell. They referred us to this bride (thanks guys!) and it's the first time we've seen them in action. They are great and I highly recommend them!

For now I am laying low and trying to catch up on housework. Judah is almost well--just a little snuffles-- thanks to the garlic oil/probiotics/colloidal silver/kefir/olive leaf/echinacea. Poor kid's been on quite a regime of meds... But at least he's finally well. This winter is going down in history as the The Year of the Great Forshey Sickness

In a side note, there are times when it's great to be in business for yourself; the freedom! the hours! the control! However, there's also a sucky side to it. There's no one else to refer to when things get sticky. The buck stops here, baby. blech. I think I might retire really, really early. Like, maybe tomorrow.

Wedding Season is Upon Us

This is wedding week 1 for our little design business (no, the site's still not finished-- we've been too busy doing weddings! and having babies... and such) and I know that blogging will have to take a backseat to all the panic and stress that usually accompanies wedding week. I've been browsing through my archives and picking out my favorite Mommy-Posts-- the ones where I talk about being a mom and what it means to me and the things I'm learning about being a better mom. I'm going to post some of them to cover these busy days and keep my place marked in all y'all's Google Readers and such. It's good for me to re-read them and remember the things the Lord has been teaching me, and perhaps there are some moms reading that might enjoy a chance to Empathize :) If you've read them all already, bear with me. I'll be posting pics of the weddings and the whole process for the first time on our new My Sisters' Weddings blog! I know, I know!! I can hardly wait either!!!

Chat-versation with my business partner

(Just to give you an idea of what life's been like around here lately... I've changed the names to protect the innocent. And the guilty.)


me: hey

you there?

L: oh hey there

yep...about to go eat real fast then get on the phone....I had to get organized first...

and for the moment, with MSW - I am ORGANIZED

me: Yay!

L: for the moment. but I will relish it.

me: We got an email from Bride 1

I will forward it to you

L: ooooo

me: it came to my gmail address

L: still looking for the Bride 1 e-mail...

me: coming now

(the bride had emailed us asking about some info we were supposed to have sent her last week)

L: oh crap!

I forgot about that!

me: yeppers

L: I was thinking we were waiting for her!

me: Hey

when you call Bride 2

ask her what address she sent the check to

L: k

me: I'm worried she may have sent it to the PO box

L: k

me: despite instructions to the contrary

L: Yep. I'll check for sure

So...for Bride 1...can we reply with the same exact e-mail we sent last night to Bride 3?

me: no

I've got to get her the info today

I've got it almost ready

L: okay...then maybe mention how inundated we were with this current wedding?

me: yes

I will

L: I feel so bad...I totally forgot we were doing that....bad processing on my part after the meeting.

me: yeah

I remembered it in the back of my brain somewhere

but never got around to actually doing anything about it

L: Well....at least between the two of us!

Should I throw some photos together?

me: photos for what?

L: For Bride 1?

me: ah

well

I suppose

if you have time

I feel like a tornado

I am writing a blog post

responding to comments

chatting with you

reviewing emails

answering emails

eating lunch

reading my bloglist

and trying to finish up the doc for Bride 1 and Bride 3

ALL AT THE SAME TIME

and ALL BEFORE THE KIDS GET UP

bleh

it's exhausting to be me

L: you are a tornado....it's the only way to keep that many balls in the air!

me: yep

you said it

*looks at weird mental picture of self whirling around juggling fifteen balls while riding a unicycle*

don't ask where the unicycle came from

I don't know

L: he he he

me: it's a caffeine powered tornado

so far I'm on my third cup

New look

I'm thinking this may be the (at least semi--) permanent face of my blog. I've been spending a lot of time fiddling around with various templates on another blog of mine that I created solely for that purpose. This one seems to be "me". Whatcha think? Sue? Laurie? People who know me? Is this Me?

Anyway. It's here for now. And messing around with all the cool templates was fun! And it got me motivated to learn more about html and website design and such. Which is good, because our business website and blog (really too embarrassed to share the link just yet-- it's pretty, um... not done...)  are suffering from looong neglect. Partly because Laura is currently the only go-to woman for html/web design and she just had a baby! So not so much web design going on these days.

So stay tuned! I may soon be able to show off my html skills on our business sites! You'll be the first to know ;)