When Tim and I married, timmy (tim jr.) was already 15 years old. I missed the first steps, first words, late night feedings and changing diapers. (I’d like to say I missed the sleepless nights worrying about him but now that he’s in his twenties, I still have plenty of those.) Even though I was late to the party, it was perfect timing, I love being his mom. Every year we grow closer and closer as a family.

Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day by placing flowers on my mother in laws gravesite. Naomi, went home to heaven in 2007. We miss her funny laugh and giving heart. I know she is smiling down from heaven on us. Tim Jr joined us there.

I was thrilled he brought me a bouquet of white tulips, a funny card and even sweets in the form of cherry twizzlers.

Tim and I drove home and had a fun movie marathon day, then joined Tim Jr. later that evening for dinner. All in all it was a great Mother’s day.

I hope all of the mothers out there had a great mother’s day too!

Today I’m officially launching my new website. I built it myself with the help of Tara Gentiles online Website Kickstart class. I highly recommend it.

You may notice that my older blog posts (from 7 years of blogging) are missing in action here. There’s a little back end tweaking with my hosting company that needs to happen before I can import the feed. And quite honestly, I’m not sure I want to. I kind of feel like a clean slate/fresh start might be a good idea. If you have an opinion either way, let me know by leaving a comment.

In the transition I also inadvertently lost my subscribers from my feedburner list. I’ve re-added it, please re-subscribe to get my blog posts in your email inbox. Sorry about that. It’s tricky moving and re-building a website but i continue to learn a lot and will be back on track soon.

Although the site isn’t “perfect” I wanted to get it launched. I plan on revising my gallery pages to make it easier for you to see the my art work. The slide shows seem a little cumbersome to me. Thumbnail image galleries is what I’m researching now. Please bear with me as I tweak things.

To all you mothers, step mothers, pet mothers, god mothers…Happy early Mother’s Day to you!

PS: thank you to the wonderful ladies who were on my secret website team to help me plan and organize my new website. I truly appreciate all your help.