Here is the thing. You're likely going to see a lot of posts about this topic from me... because I often struggle with the concept of life, and time, and how quickly it all flies us by.

I just read that Tim Russert died today. He was only 58 , and he dropped dead of a heart attack while at work. Wow. I remember the Sunday mornings before we had kids.. we would try to catch "Meet the Press," which always seemed to be on sooooo early for a Sunday morning (hehe). I always enjoyed his no-nonsense approach to politics, and I think he did a great job at seeming very non-partisan about everything. How incredibly sad that he died so young.

It makes you take pause - in the middle of juggling so many things and running the the next activity, perhaps we're all just lucky to be here to juggle and to be running.

Little problems don't seem as big when you hear news like that.

A blog for me has sort of been like buying a new, clean journal to begin writing in. I have bought many of these pretty, empty books... only to write in them three times and forget they are there. I found this blog shell all set up by someone with my name and location back in 2005. Zero posts!

So here I go. We'll see how it goes.

Today is hot and humid in Central NY. We spent the morning on the soccer field, since both Emily and Ryan are playing this year. Her game was at 8:15 a.m., and his was at 11:00 a.m. We were late, of course, because we stopped at the grocery store for the snack on our way. I was going to go last night, but we had just left the Cato pool and my hair was all fluff-tastic. =) I will not have a picture of that, so don't worry.

In other news, a young kitten has adopted our house as it's new family. We haven't fed it, but we have certainly given it lots of cuddles. The neighbors across the street said that they would feed it, but it keeps wandering over to our porch to meow at the door. We hope it adopts the family that is feeding it, instead, because the Beagle does not dig having a kitten on the porch.

It is a hot and humid 86 degrees here today. Summer is here!