Merry Christmas! I Made A Vlog! In Fact I Made Two Vlogs!

I did it!  I made a vlog!  And then YouTube said it was too long!

Who know YouTube had insane time limits?

Not me.

But they do and my vlog, at 20 minutes, was over the limit.

So now it is two vlogs!

Here is part 1:

I have only watched part of it.

It is torture to watch oneself on video.  My voice sounds weird.  It's true - as soon as we finished filming my kids told me so.

"Why did you have such a weird voice? That was your phone voice!"

Does everyone have a phone voice or is it just me?  I worry because in everyday life people are always telling me that they didn't hear what I just said which means either:

a) I mumble

b) the entire world is hard of hearing

Odds are that it's B so whenever I'm being recorded or on the phone, I try to over enunciate and I sound weird.  In any case, if I ever do this again, I'm getting an actual mike because you have to turn the volume way up to hear this video.

Sorry about that.

If you can make it through Part 1 and still care, here is Part II

About half way through this one my kids try to trick my into telling them The Wedding Ring story.  A few years back my original wedding ring went missing and when we found it again there was a story with it.

A story my kids can't hear until 10 years have passed and there are still three years to go.

When I tell them, I'll tell you too.

Of course, I'm assuming that after people watch this that they'll even want to come back.

In any case, we had fun doing this.  Thanks to those who submitted questions and thanks to all of you who visit Our Front Door.  Merry Christmas if you celebrate it and Happy . . . Sunday? if you don't.

Love you guys!

Mindee

This Could End Badly

Last night as we were all sitting around the table finishing dinner, my Christmas present was delivered.  We all knew what was in the box, which did not lessen the excitement at all.

"Okay you guys, this is my only Christmas present so right this moment is my Christmas morning.  Let me enjoy it."

They started in immediately.

"Mom! Can I open one more present?"

"I already have this! Can we go return it tomorrow?"

"He already opened a present! It's my turn!"

I paused in my box opening to glare at my giggling children.  Hayden, acting as spokesman, gave me a wide eyed look.  "If it's your Christmas morning, we want it to be realistic for you Mom."

Aren't they thoughtful?

Deciding to ignore the peanut gallery, I returned to opening my new iPhone 4S.  Source

It is bee-you-tiful.  Beautiful, but a bit over my head for the moment.  My tech guru husband was eager for me to figure out all the capabilities so he called me from across the room for a face time chat.

When my face popped up on my own phone, I gasped in horror and hit "dismiss" immediately.

"Ew! I do NOT like the way my face looks on that app.  Don't do that!"

So of course he called right back.  I sighed and answered and was relieved to see that Rich's face looked just as unsettling.

It's not me.  It's the app.

Which makes my next proposal scare me just a bit:

I want to try a video blog for Christmas. Or vlog for the cool kids.

If you leave a comment on this post asking me a question, I will attempt to answer it in video format and post it this weekend.  It can be a Christmas related question, or a general question.  You can try to leave a question for Rich or the kids but I haven't run this idea by them so I can't promise I'll get them on camera.

Just don't ask me what size pants I'm in right now.  The number is big.  That's all I'm saying.