Hi all. It's Laura again. I know it's been a while since I've been around here and I do apologize. Life has been keeping me busy.

in March. I had the opportunity to go out to California and visit my two nieces. That was amazing. LJ who is going to be three in one month is such a good big sister. The love she has for HR is really incredible. LJ was a little hard to reach at first, but after a few days and a little help from my brother, we figured out how to get her to connect with me. After that it was a lot more fun. HR is just the sweetest sweetest little girl on the planet. She's just so full of happiness and joy, and as I've seen her grow over the last few months, that doesn't seem to have changed, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how she continues to grow. HR is almost 8 months old and is crawling, and LJ of course is going to be three in July. And she is just really learning and growing at the Montessori preschool.   It's fun to watch the videos my brother sends me of them.

I've been working on planning and anticipating my trip that I'll be taking here in about six weeks to Chintoteague Island in Virginia. I'm getting very very anticipatory of being able to go out there and see the ponies.

Something new I started recently is I decided to try my hand at making a YouTube channel. It's something that I've thought about in the past because there's several different topics that I thought I might be able to have something to say about, but until now I just have not really done anything about it. It's going to be kind of a more of a Hodge podge of a channel where I do reflections about life, where I talk about recipes I try or that I create, where I talk about stories from my childhood or stories that my dad told, talking about travel, all that kind of stuff. I'll probably also talk about things like dealing with my Mom’s dementia And how people can find ways to do for for caring more about their senior family members. It's still kind of a work in progress. Exactly what I'm going to be doing but that's kind of the idea behind it. I've lots of ideas has already. So hopefully I will not run out of content very soon.

If you'd like to check it out, you can look up, rooted and growing with Laura. My goal is to post twice a week. Likely Wednesdays will be more of a reflective post or something about faith. And then Sundays will be possibly recipes. Maybe book reviews. I don't know. Kind of a more general one.

DH will be retiring here on August 3. He is very very excited and getting less less patient with his coworkers as he's nearing the final day. I'm really curious to see what he is going to actually do with the retirement. His stated plan is of course selling speakers, but he also has really even getting into dealing a Stocks and recently. He's had some pretty good success with some of the stocks that he has chosen to invest in. 

I'm really going to try to come back here more often ,