Did you ever get so behind on something that, at some point, you just gave up? I have experienced this particular phenomenon in several areas of my adult life- laundry, cleaning, returning emails, blogging... Maybe that says something about my personality. When under pressure, give up. When I sit down at the computer (which, trust me, still happens several times a day, despite the computer that caught on fire last month), and I think of all of the things I could blog about from the past couple of months, then I think Where the hell do I start? then I think Who in the heck really cares about all this mommy crap anyway? I myself am about sick of reading about other peoples' babies and toddlers then I start feeling overwhelmed and guilty and THEN I click away from blogger and look at cute pictures of cats. Then, in shame and guilt, I tiptoe quietly away from the computer.

So I think I have come up with a solution. Anything interesting that happened since say, oh, September, is lost to you forever. There is no way I could catch up, so I think I will just start over.

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Claire's teacher pulled me aside after preschool the other day to share this charming conversation they had.

Claire: My daddy has brown hair.

Teacher: Oh yeah? Do you have a cute daddy?

Claire: Yeah he is pretty cute, but he toots alot.

Teacher: ......

I will never, and I mean NEVER, have to worry about Claire having trouble expressing herself to other adults.

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Did I mention that Josh's sister is getting married to this guy?:

He, obviously, is a deep thinker. He should fit right in. We're a bunch of intellectuals, us Duncans.