The Ellis' Are Back In Town

Do you ever get that feeling, the one that makes you sort of want to hide in a cave and dwell on the good things in life? Escape from the rest of the world and just be with the ones you love.

Over the course of this last year, I’ve had sporadic urges to hop on my laptop and blog my heart out, but something pulls me back every time. I think it’s that feeling. The need to take a break from sharing life with the entire world, and instead just share it with family for a little while.  Bliss is always doing funny little things that I could compose a novel over, but I’ve enjoyed just holding them in my heart and then pulling them from my memory at night as I’m lying in bed. Things that make my soul smile.  I’ve always loved writing, and I especially have a significant amount to write about now that I have this little bundle of sugar in my life named Bliss. So, all in all, my point is: I’ve shied away from blogging about our life for a year now so that we could have, in a way, our private family time. I frequent facebook to tattle tid bits about Bliss and the animated world that she has created in our home, but nothing too terribly extensive.  And well, now I’m back. Bliss is wildly too inspiring and simply cute to not write these things down and share for our family and friends to enjoy as well. I’ve also missed the journalistic side of photography, so I hope to get my creative juices flowing again and capture some moments from Bliss’ point of view (which I must warn, is a mere 28 inches off of the ground, haha).  So, you can be looking forward to reading about the antics of Bliss Amelia and the colorful, sometimes irrational, world of the Ellis Family Circus. We’re back Blog, we’re back!

 I’ve managed to keep myself at this laptop until the way-too-late hour of 1:00 AM, and so this will end my first post of the year, and my most boring post of the year. I’ll be back soon (maybe even tomorrow) to jot down some of the funny, nonsensical things that occur around our home and start my real blogging. Now, I’m going to wrangle myself and drag down the hall, check on my sweet Bliss and then join my sleeping (probably snoring) husband in the land of sleep.

 One last thing, I did want to share that we ventured into the “Breakfast for Dinner” thing tonight and had a feast of pancakes, biscuits with jam, scrambled eggs, hash browns, and chocolate milk for dinner. Bliss had her first taste of REAL breakfast foods, she ate almost a whole pancake and some good bites of scrambled eggs. She was full before I got to the biscuits and jam, but rest assured her little taste buds will be getting a workout in the morning, come actual breakfast time. I’m excited for this girl to taste grape jam, I believe she’s going to think the world of it. She and I have a fun day full of coloring and dancing ahead of us, and maybe even a nap! I’ll need it more than her tomorrow!

"If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
-Ghandi


All Our Love,
The Ellis Family