Hiatus Over

Whoa.

Even I didn't expect that to happen.

I've been gone for almost a month.

I feel like someone died. And, in a way, I guess my blog kind of did.

When the movers came to our old house in South Carolina on Feb. 10, I expected only a few days blogging silence.

What I didn't expect was my entire family to come down with RSV while we all slept on the floor of our empty home. Furthermore, I didn't expect to dump an entire class of tea on our Macbook two days later.

And then, I didn't expect to get to our house in Georgia pm Feb. 17 and be so overwhelmed by New Town+Baby+Many Boxes of Stuff that I effectively lost myself in the place for three days.

And then we left on vacation. We spent more than two weeks in Arkansas and in Florida, visiting my in-laws and then watching my little brother get married just this past weekend.

And let's just say that, when you find yourself holding a baby on your hip and yelling at the florist with a, "You thought the wedding was at 4 p.m.! But the wedding is at 10 a.m.! And it's currently 9:45!"?

Well, you could effectively say I've hit a wall.

I am freaking exhausted.

And yet, today, I returned back to my "home" in Georgia, where we lived a total of three days last month, and found rooms stacked with boxes, some unpacked, some not.

Ding! There went my Stress-O-Meter.

I see blank walls and empty windows. They need photos and art and curtains.

Which would be totally do-able if I didn't have a baby who crawls - fast - and pulls up on things and stands while taking a few tentative steps. Plus, she says "Mama!" when she wants me. Which, for the record, is all the time. Little Miss Ella won't let another soul touch her at this point. We have effectively entered the Mommy Stage.

God help us all.

In other words, I'm a mess.

The good news is, today, our Internet gets set up. We have a back-up computer - which is basically a decrepit typewriter that we coax into holding a charge when it feels like it - so I Macbook.

And, by weeks end, as God and you all as my witness, my windows will have curtains, and my walls shall have photos galore!

Past the brilliant glare of my dinging Stress-O-Meter, I can see the light of regular life at the end of this tunnel.

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So, yeah, I'm back.

Some sense of normalcy has to resume, even in this small town we now live in, where my house isn't unpacked, and I know no one.

Even though I'm scared straight, my hiatus is over.

I need to revive the blog, and I miss you all terribly. (I swear, I missed Internet access more than I care to admit.) Plus, I have some questions to answer, if I'm not mistaken.

So, now, catch me up. What have you all been up to?

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Happy Monday, everyone!