Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Have you missed me? (Did you even realize I'd been gone?) If you are one of my regular readers, you might have noticed that I have not been as long-winded prolific as usual. There are a couple of reasons for that:

#1 I'm coming to discover that when we lived in Ohio and I homeschooled three children and took care of my baby/toddler and had to do the shopping and cooking and cleaning (don't say a word) and washing and drying and ironing and folding and chauffeuring and refereeing and nursing and entertaining . . . I only thought I was busy;

#2 I've been going through something that has been kind of tough on me (and no, surprisingly, I would not like to talk about it) and it has consumed all of my mental energy, to the point that any blog entry I might have tried to conjure up would have probably read more like a funeral dirge; and

#3 I have "gone back to my roots" and have actually been making use of my college degree--well, the minor part of it, at least. Our church's website has been undergoing a major . . . wait, let's try this again . . . MAJOR overhaul and I have been lending my fair-to-middling skills expertise to the project. I haven't done a whole lot of writing but I've done an awful lot of editing and it is astonishing how five hours can pass in the blink of an eye! That's how long T and I worked today alone. We probably put in another five hours earlier this week (Monday? Tuesday? How quickly we forget!). And that's with us working together. I've also been working on my own on Word files that she has been sending me periodically for the last few weeks (I won't even try to estimate how many hours she has put in on this project). We go live in less than a week so the pressure is on!

Needless to say, I've been at my computer so much lately that blogging has been the LAST thing I've wanted to do. Shocking but true. And another sad realization I've come to is the fact that since the kids started school, there just aren't that many funny stories for me to relate. And I know, I know, there has been an unpardonable lack of photos lately. The kids are growing so fast--Tyler's driving now, Darcy joined the Peace Corps, Peyton got her hair cut and Sawyer has grown a mustache.

Okay, okay, only one of those is true. I'll leave it to you to figure out which one it is. In the meantime, I think Sawyer needs some help with the razor.