We = In California.

Trip = Good, so far

Van = Still gone.

I = Getting massage at 2:30 today.

Update = Imminent. Hang with me.

Till then I will leave you with a picture of a delicious baby. Enjoy.

I'm here, I swear! Don't give up on me!

Huh? I have a blog?

Oh yeah. Whoops.

We made it back from California in one piece. We had a wonderful time. Since our return I've been engrossed in online drama and also Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (which, OMG, fascinating! I am quite literally on the edge of my seat every time I open the book).

There is much about which to update (My little baby is 4.5 months old now! My biggest baby is starting the second grade on Friday! My middle baby.....well, he's off in his own little world, as usual!) but it is now 11:36 and I should be getting to bed. Yes, it is still early for the Incorrigible Night Owl but the Incorrigible Baby is not what you'd call a good sleeper so I'm having to cut my nights a bit shorter these days if I want to continue to function.

I promise to post several new items in the next couple of days. Also I may turn my comments back on and see if the spammers have given up on me yet. One can only hope.

Wow, this is pretty pathetic!

I have nothing to say for myself except that I'm a lazy, lazy human being. I could take the easy way out and play the "I'm gestating and it takes all my energy" card but I'm above that.

Actually.....I'm not.

I'm gestating and it takes all my energy.

On the bright side, I'm not getting sick any more. Not to say that I don't still have days when my tummy doesn't agree with me but the actual porcelain-god-praying phase seems to be over. For someone in this condition, though, if it's not one thing, it's another. The nausea has abated only to be replaced by a deep, abiding exhaustion. Actually, I think the exhaustion was always here but I was too busy yacking to notice it before.

Anyway, semi-comatose state aside, I'm almost 21 weeks along now -- over halfway done, unless I go overdue, which we will just pretend is completely and totally NOT possible. The ultrasound is a week from today and I'm terribly excited. Getting confirmation this is really a girl will be great and it's going to be a 4D ultrasound so we are going to get an amazing look at what this little one really looks like. They didn't even have 4D ultrasounds last time I was pregnant. We will be given a bunch of still photos from it and also will have part of it on videotape, which I will be working on transferring to computer so I can upload it to YouTube for everyone to see.

In non-babymaking news Madalyn and I leave for a "Girls' Pre-Weekend Weekend" on Thursday. We'll be going down to Dallas to see the Radio City Christmas Spectacular (starring the Rockettes) on Thursday night. We'll spend the night and, on Friday, we'll go to the Ripley's Believe it or Not museum and House of Wax before heading home. On the way home we'll stop for lunch at Maggiano's Little Italy. We ate there when we were in the area last month and I had a fried zucchini appetizer that I seriously considered proposing marriage to.

There's more on which to update but seeing as how I've broken my resolution to be in bed by 11 p.m. yet again I will wrap it up for tonight. I really, really hope to do better at keeping up with things around here! The cobwebs in the corners are going to be a bear to clean up!

Hi.

I still exist.

We're in California; have been here since July 27th and won't be heading home until the 18th. It's going by veeeerrrry slooooowly and I have been completely worthless since we arrived. (More on that at some point in the future.)

If I become suddenly imbued with ambition I will write an update about the trip so far.....or about other, completely un-trip-related things.

Right now I'm just trying to take it easy and, loathe as I am to admit it, hoping the rest of the trip will go by fast. It's nothing personal; this just turns out to be one of the almost-nonexistent times when I'd rather be at home than out and about.

All is well, though. I thought I ought to at least let everyone know that!

How is everyone else's summer going?

Okay, so, the entry-a-day thing? Yeah, totally forgot about it.

In my defense, though, Jennifer is in Tulsa for job training. So between being on the phone with her and then dashing up last night for an impromptu visit I've had other things on my mind.

Or something.

Anyway, on with the show.

Wow, I just went ahead and dropped right off the face of the earth, there, didn't I?

Well, I have been attempting (strictly out of necessity) to go to bed earlier recently, and it's already 11 p.m. So "real" entries will have to wait just a bit longer.

As penance for my slackage I am vowing, right here and now, to write at least one new entry per day for the next seven (7) days. You all are my witnesses.

Check back soon.

I'm here, y'all. We're in the throes of Vacation Bible School, for which I am playing shepherd to the Kindergarten/1st grade class. This requires our getting up at 7:30 a.m. (read: WAY early for all of us) to be there on time. Add to that the fact that we have had t-ball games last night and tonight, and they were the latest they've ever played (one at 8:00; one at 9:00) and it's kind of a crazy week. I'm having fun with VBS but there is just no way that going to bed at 1 a.m. (or later) and then getting up at 7:30 would cut it, not for a week straight while spending 3 hours a day herding 20+ little kids. So I've been making a concerted effort to get to bed early. I just knocked back an Ambien a little while ago and I'm off to Slumberland again just as soon as I post this.

Tomorrow, no t-ball, but we are taking the kids to see Cars in the afternoon. I can't wait; I think I've been looking forward to it just as much as (if not more than) they have.

I've got a few subjects that have been rattling around inside my head about which I'd like to ramble but it will have to wait till this weekend. I'm spending the better part of the afternoon in varying stages of unconsciousness on the couch and then with going to bed early it really cuts down on my computer time. Stick with me!

I'm here! I'm alive!

We arrived home safely last night. I will write a proper update soon. I totally flaked while I was in CA....which is not necessarily a bad thing.

My new design is very close to being finished and I have to say (because I have absolutely no part in creating it) it ROCKS.

More later....

Zzzzzz......

Tired....packing.....unpacking.....settling in......gaaaahhhhh......

I'm here. Perhaps not 100% mentally present but I am at least thinking about blogging. That's something, right?

*drool*

Zzzzzzzz....

*snort*

Wha..? Huh? What happened? I...I have a blog? Oh my God...I think you're right! What was I thinking?

No really good excuses, folks. I've just been distracted by other things and keep forgetting to write. Geesh.

I'm still here, just busy with my parents.

Rather than take the easy way out and post a meme or quiz results or something I will instead just say: hang with me, I'll be back soon.

(We are taking the kids to Arbuckle Wilderness tomorrow so maybe we'll be accosted by a group of rogue emus or something and I can write about it.)

Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you: an update.

I'm getting verklempt. Talk amongst yourselves.

Here's a topic: Could I be any lazier?

Discuss!

(Hopefully I will be more bloggingly-inclined this week!)