A Pregnancy
My pregnancy with Brooke was so wonderfully easy. I was never sick. I wasn’t tired. I felt great!
Dallas and I got in a car accident. We were driving from Ogden to Orem in a snowstorm and slipped on the freeway. Luckily our car just had a little bumper damage and we were fine. (Well, I did break a nail, but I guess in the grand scheme of things that’s not too bad.) I was nervous about the wreck because I was pregnant, but Brooke appeared not to have been harmed by the wreck either. Thank goodness!
It’s really hard to tie a straight bow on your own clothes so I had to teach Dallas how to tie one for me. He proved himself an able student and his first bow was the cutest thing I’ve ever seen:
I was lucky enough to have three baby showers. The first one was thrown for me by the teachers I worked with. They were so kind and generous:
My second shower was thrown for me by my mother-in-law. We got some more great stuff:
My third shower was thrown for me by my family. Laurie made an adorable diaper cake:
Abe and Klarissa and my siblings acquired an old dresser and repainted it for the baby:
The inside of all the drawers held a surprise:
Everyone who helped paint the dresser signed it and made their handprints in the shape of a heart. I loved it.
More gifts:
I think we’re ready to have a baby!
Journaler
A long time ago I downloaded a cool free little application called Journaler for my Mac. I haven’t done anything with it until now and while I was looking around the program and discovered that it has a blog posting option, which solves my problem with writing in this blog because I usually don’t feel like writing a blog post whenever I have online access, so I can now write my blog entries in Journaler and post them up later when I have online access.
Cool Stuff!
Subscribing to a Blog
The Beautiful thing about blogs is that ofttimes you never have to visit the website to see if there is any new content. You can subscribe to you favorite blogs by using either online services or by software on you computer by what is called an aggregator. The way it works is that tell it where to look and it will go out and see if there are any changes or what the current post is. This isn’t as simple as telling your aggregator a .com address and it will know what to do. You have to give it a specific address. Let me tell you briefly how it works both on the web or on your computer.
On both methods you have to have a rss address this is often found by its icon.
That looks like this.
It might also say somewhere on the page (likely on the bottom) “subscribe to postâ€. This is where you will find the feed address.
THE WEB
The first method is by subscribing to a blog by using an online service. These include Google and Yahoo. If you have an account with these companies they offer a personalized homepage that will give you an option of adding a feed address to you personal page. To do this you just right click on the RSS icon or the subscribe link and click on “copy link locationâ€. This will add the link to your computer’s clipboard. You then go to Google or Yahoo’s personalized page and you paste the address in the subscription field on your page.
AN AGGREGATOR PROGRAM
You can download a program or use a program that you already own to download the blog entries. It is often associated with your browser. You can also use your email program like Outlook or Thunderbird. All you have to do in this case is to click on the subscribe icon or link and the browser will ask you with what you want to subscribe. I use a program called Vienna that deal specifically with blog posts. You can find programs like this as free downloads many places on the web.
I hope I have been sufficiently clear about how to subscribe and if I haven’t then feel free to let me know and I’ll try to make things clearer.