Campfires and baseball

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My son has fallen in love with baseball. It’s all he wants to do. Every single day. When he isn’t at a game or practice, he’s making us practice in the yard with him. I’m glad he’s found something he loves to do. It’s so much better than him sitting in the house playing video games.

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We’re spending a lot of time outside right now. I’ve added some potted plants to the porch and my garden is growing! Sometimes we just sit on the porch and enjoy the evening.

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This weekend we got the fire pit going and I hung out some colorful lights. It was just like a camp-out without having to use a public bathroom or sleep on an uncomfortable bed.

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We are savoring the sweetness of summer. How about you?

I pay my kids to brush my hair

Insta Friday 4-27-12

I don’t really pay them. I sort of guilt them into it. The little one is really easy because if i say that one of the others is going to brush my hair, she runs up quick to beat them to it.

Some other things you might find in my Instagram stream this week: the eyesore also known as the guinea pig cage. We have tried a few different things and the answer is nothing is easy or looks good.

Fresh eggs! We are getting enough to feed us now.

The rest: school, play, work.

I’m Melissa Stover on Instagram. If you’re on Instagram, leave your name in the comments and I’ll follow you.

I read this article by Tofurious this week: Should You Post the Same Content on All Social Media Profiles?  I don’t share every photo I post to Instagram on Facebook or Twitter. I post one every once in a while on Facebook, rarely on Twitter unless I’m @ing someone on Twitter in the picture. I love how he calls posting different media in different places rewarding followers. If you follow a person on Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook then all content they post goes across all mediums in exactly the same format, it can get repetitively annoying.

I try not to do this. How do you feel about cross sharing the same content on multiple profiles? Does it bother you at all? Or is this just a problem for those of us who are overly socially engaged?

But, I do round up a few Instagram photos to post on my blog for Insta Friday. I hope that doesn’t annoy you if you follow me on Instagram. I really love Instagram. I love seeing how creative people can be with their phone images. And there are some awesomely creative people out there! I’m hope that now that Facebook owns it won’t change anything (like blurt every single Instagram photo you take across Facebook).

One of my favorite photo editing apps is Camera+. Do you have any that you can’t live without?

Linking up with My Home Sweet Home Online.

How I feel today

You know it could all change with one bad attitude or a moment when I feel too tired to do one more thing and the house looks like a tornado hit, but right now I’m feeling pretty good.

I feel happy:

because I got to take some sweet pictures of my kids the other day and these four blessings are my life.

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I feel excited:

because my business is growing and I am getting to do something I love.

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I feel content:

because I know God is in control of my life, especially when I don’t understand how things will work out.

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I feel a sense of accomplishment:

when we have several great days of school in a row and I see my kids really learning.

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And I have to add that I feel pain:

in my muscles because I keep trying running and it really hurts!

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How are you feeling today?

 

 

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