Finally

Well, yes, I am here.

I have been doing things, dreaming things, making things...things I have thought so often to share on this blog.  I can't exactly tell you why I haven't because I can't quite figure it out myself.  Maybe it's the fact that my sister took back the computer she was letting me borrow, maybe because it was summer and I was spending so much time outside & away from home, or maybe it was just because I was living...in the moment...something that I sometimes find challenging.  Regardless, I realized that a strange thing happened to me this summer.  I didn't take many photos (my camera is still "full" from our 4th of July trip to the east coast).  I wasn't checking email a gazillion times a day.  I missed friends posts on facebook.  I talked on the phone more (gasp!).  I went off-line for a bit.  And man, did it feel GOOD!

Now I am back. After all, it is *almost* fall and the rain is coming, as are the early dark evenings.  The kids are going to bed earlier.  Eric is back to work.  Routine has set in.  I'm feeling crafty!  So, get ready...perhaps now I will share all those things I have been doing, dreaming, and making.