Wow, I've been absent!

So, I suppose sitting down to catch up exactly ten minutes before I need to run out the door is a bad idea.  But... what the hell.  It's ten minutes.

Alright, so since my last post, we had Halloween, where we went dressed up as a Fireman, and Raggedy Anne.  Very cute, not particularly eventful, just the way I like it.

November came, and I had to have major under-arm surgery to remove a tumor.  The tumor was benign, thank goodness, but having surgery the day before Thanksgiving certainly made the holiday entertaining.  Recovery is going well, I am mostly healed, just a little problem with range of motion, and some nerve damage for the skin.  It's coming back slowly, though, in interesting bursts of tingling.

Oh, November also brought the arrival of a new family member - Blake, our 2 year old black Lab/something or another mix.  It's like having a 2 year old in the house.  I swear to you, he threw a temper tantrum yesterday.

Christmas brought a packed-to-the-gills house.  We had my best friend, her husband, and their five children stay with us for almost a week.  The ages of the children in the house were as follows:  8, 5, 4, 4, almost 3, 17mos, and 5mos.  Things were crazy.  But Santa visited, the kids all got lots of goodies, many squeals insued, etc. 

New Years hit.  The first four days of the new year were ... how might one say... batshit crazy.  But everything settled down, and we're back to a quasi-normal routine now. 

Child One is seeing a new doctor, and we're making progress toward something useful.  Child Two is in pre-k... and I'm not sure what my thoughts on that are.  Mostly, I'm not pleased, but I'm hesitant to move her, because of the lateness in the year.  Her year only runs to May, so I'm not sure a move would be best served.

I took them out to pick u-pick strawberries last Friday... This is my funny for the day, and I'll leave you with this, as I fling myself through the front door.  I called the farm, to verify that they were in fact open, and that yes, there were strawberries to be had.  "Yes! Come on down!"  Packed up the children after school, and off we went. 

We arrived, to be greeted with "Sorry, no more berries!"  WTF?  Y'all had some two hours ago.  So, the girl told me some story about how they had been rained upon, how the sun hadn't shown, etc... and that there were no berries because of this.  Uh huh.  Ok, fine.  Then she fed me this line:  "Come back tomorrow!  We'll have some then!" 

::blinks::  You *had* berries this morning when I called, and now you don't have any, because of the rain, and yet you'll have some *just magically appear* TOMORROW?

I may not be the smartest person on the planet.  I'm comfortable with (and comforted by) that.  However...  I'm not sure I buy this theory about the magically disappearing and reappearing strawberries.

So... My daughter, God bless her, turned on the water works, and made the girl behind the counter feel about like she was three inches tall.  Ask me if I care.

And there you have it, in a nutshell.  And I must bid you farewell, Internet Folks, as I am running behind (...again...) and need to drive like a madwoman.

Until we meet again....