Let's Set The Stage...

This past weekend was our annual MOPS leadership retreat. I know, I know I still have photos from vacation to blog but I know some of these gals may be anxiously awaiting some of these pics to be posted.

I'd post on facebook but I am learning facebook has a ton of etiquette rules. Many of which I think I have been guilty of violating in the past. {So sorry friends.} Plus who really wants to wake up in the morning to an email that you have been "tagged" in a photo? I clearly still remember waking up one morning to an old photo of me from high school. It wasn't anything bad just a reminder of my skinny self and I had just popped out our fourth kid. Needless to say it wasn't exactly an uplifting moment.

Plus, who knows if you even like the photo you have been tagged in? You may not open your mail until five days later, or worse yet you may not receive these gloriously, annoying emails that you have been "tagged" and the only way you know your photo is under your profile is because the kid that ate glue in kindergarten commented on it and it showed up on the homepage!

So anyway, for fear of upsetting someone I'll stick to posting photos on my blog. You can always right click and then hit "save as" and burn into your hard drive/whatever or in my case try to burn it from your memory. I think somehow I linked my blog and facebook so new posts appear as "notes" on facebook. But don't worry I won't disclose names so you won't wind up "tagged" or the image won't come up if someone ever googles your name...because that is just a whole other kind of weird world wide web occurrence!

These are just a few shots of what this garden looked like in the morning. This is the home of a lovely couple from our church. For two of the three years I have gone to retreat they have opened there home to us. Maybe it's the old realtor in me {or the future gardener..once my children grow. Let's face it you can either grow grass or grow kids/boys}. But I just loved being out in their yard. So peaceful and what made it even better? Getting to stay there with some of the most fabulous moms I know.

If I lived here I think I would curl up in that chair with a book and a hot cup of tea and read my troubles away!