WELCOME!!

Sara says:
Here is the new Frye Family blog! This is to replace our website, which Jarem needed to take down for more space on his server. And blogs are free! Thanks Elizabeth.

Jarem says:
Why “Desperate House Fryes?” Well, it’s not because we’re fans of the show Desperate Housewives. Neither one of us has ever seen that show, or ever plan to. We are a ‘home business/stay at home mom/born at home baby’ family, who fill their days with anything but being at home.
A typical day for us often includes a trip to the UPS Store to ship mechanical body parts to places like Washington DC, England, Japan, Latvia, Czech Republic, France and Norway; then to the chiropractor 45 minutes away, some shopping while we’re out near Target, 45 minutes back (stop by the machine shop on the way to pick up more prosthetic parts) run to Lowes to pick up fencing materials, get back home, put Ari down for a nap, squeeze in a 40-mile bike ride to train for upcoming events from Portland to Sun Valley to Connecticut and Orlando (oh ya, and Norway next year), pick up the mail since they don’t deliver to our home, take the dogs for a walk, go to young mens/young womens (on the one night Sara doesn’t have choir, visiting teaching or leadership meetings, and I don’t have home teaching, haven’t been asked to go to Portland –over an hour away- to give a blessing, we don’t have a dinner appointment or babysitting).
A non-typical day may substitute acupuncture for chiropractor, add a massage, picking up office supplies, sending promotional DVDs out, taking the dogs to the dog park (an hour away) shopping again (because we never seem to get everything we need in one trip) visits to the bank to straighten things out they messed up, Ari’s checkups, volunteer work at the birthing center, trips to the eye clinic day after day for months, dropping off a meal for someone in the ward, dinner with friends or sometimes a party, and the list really does go on.
People will think I’m making all this up, but as my mom can attest from asking “what’s up with you guys today” often enough, any one day really is this crazy.
So, for a ‘home business/stay at home mom/born at home baby’ family, we are pretty desperate just to get a little time at home! We have to. We have the carpet guy coming to give us a quote, an insurance salesman, home teachers, visiting teachers, another party Sara announced (without telling me I would be making all the food), a graphic design appointment, the lawn needs to be mowed, the cat needs to be fed, Sara needs to make calendars for young womens, I need to build a fence, a doghouse and eight more knees, weed the yard, clean up everything the dogs have destroyed and make list of what we need to go into town to replace…
It’s a vicious cycle. Welcome to the Desperate House Frye’s blog.