The Easy Way

Perhaps you all already know about this, but I recently learned about Windows Live Writer. It’s a program that you can download onto your computer – for free. With this program, you create all your blog posts entirely in the program and then push a button and it publishes it straight to your blog! It’s amazing because you avoid using the awful, not user-friendly blogspot.com process, and there are no draw backs, at least that I’ve found anyway. Blogging can go much faster and smoother.

So, seriously, give it a try!

Windows Live Writer

Susan

by Brandon Roses

I remember the day

When I crossed ways

With an amazing woman

Who has the charm of May

She invited me in

This was no mistake

She gave me that last

Of her husband’s cheesecake

As we talk a little while

I could tell

She was someone great

I need to know well

As I peeked and peered

Around her home

I was piecing a puzzle

Of a Susan unknown

I saw books of horses

Riding boots that don’t fit

In the bathroom the towel holder

Was a D-ring snaffle bit

In a book I saw pictures

Of a pretty, young rider

Sailing over the jumps

Like a calm, smoth hang glider

On the shelf sits a treasure

That makes me weak in the knuckle

The name Mary Sue

On a champion belt buckle

In the garage I saw something

That made my heart hollow

A dusty wood stall plaque

With the name Caro Regalo

I then saw Susan as

Someone tougher than leather

But when she opens her mouth

Her soft words are soft like a feather

When I pieced it together

I was dead like an opossum

I realized quickly that

Susan is legitimately awesome

BEST MOM ON EARTH!

Thanks Mom for being born! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!!! We love you sooooo much!

Happy 34th Anniversary To Us!

Today marks 34 years together... now there is something to celebrate! Happy Anniversary Blaine! I love you forever.

New Blog

So, as much as I enjoy putting up all of my posts twice (once on this blog and once on the Walton family blog), I've finally decided to start our own family blog. I still plan to post on here occasionally if there's something meant only for family members.

Here's the link:

http://russanneburnettfamily.blogspot.com/

Ashlyn is always full of questions. Recently many of her questions have been about Jesus. It's obvious that she is really beginning to think about Him more. She often requests to hear the story about "when Jesus died" and she'll make statements like, "We believe in Jesus, don't we, Mom."

This morning she asked me when we get to live with Jesus. I told her we get to live with him in heaven after we die. Then she said, "I'm so excited to live with Jesus! Jesus will say, 'Hello, Ashlyn.' And I will be one of the children."

It's very rewarding, as a parent, to observe these seeds of testimony beginning to grow.

Good Manners