Hello?

For anyone still coming here, I'm alive. And well. Thanks for coming back.

It's just that I got busy ~ super busy ~ with fall sports, big deliverables at work, squabbling kids, a traveling husband, and a shiny new season of television wooing me glassy eyed to the couch (when I should have been glassy eyed in front of my laptop, I know). And also, my hard drive crashed, causing me a few weeks of downtime/catch up time, and untold amounts of stress.

The other problem is, I wouldn't allow myself to post anything until I posted Bug's 5th birthday letter (see below), which inexplicably took me forever to finish. Even now, I'm not sure it is what I wanted to capture, but it's going to have to do. It's nearly 2 months late, so it'll just have to.

And finally, I continue to struggle with lack of blogging motivation. We'll see where that goes. In the meantime, I'm back for now, and I plan on catching up with all you beautiful people's own blogs next.