So I go and get the blog back up and running, and then I promptly vanish.  That’s really nice of me, huh?

Well, I had a little surgery and that took a little bit to recover. Nothing major, I just made sure that we would not be having any more suprise children. lol. I love my suprise little boy, but I know that 4 children is my max limit.  Truthfully,  after the 1st day, I didn’t hurt at all; I just felt like I had done a thousand sit ups.  But it did drain me, and made me super tired. Luckily, Mark has the kind of job, where he could take time off and take care of me.

And I have been getting ready for a two week road trip. Ian and I are going with my parents to a family reunion in Montana. I’m super excited to go! I’ll be seeing a lot of family that I haven’t seen in ages. And I will be going back to the town in Montana that I grew up in. I haven’t been there since I was 13. We’ll be going to more than just Montana; we are doing a mini tour of the western states. I’m going to spend some time in Colorado, seeing my best friend, and my aunt, then on to Glendive and Bozeman Montana. Then a little time in Wyoming for Yellowstone National Park. And a few days in Salt Lake City for some exploring what is in that area too!

Right before my surgery, I had the chance to have dinner with a friend that I haven’t seen in 13 years.  Stacey and I were great friends in High School. There were four of us that were inseperatable. Me, Nikki, Stacey, and Beth.  Stacey fell off the face of the earth; Beth and I live in the same city, and still barely ever see each other; and Nikki is my best friend still.  (in fact, I’m gonna see her in Colorado in a few days!)  Thanks to Facebook, Stacey and I reconnected.  She was going to be in Vegas for a few days, so we got to gether for dinner one night. We sat and talked for hours. It was so great.

Well, that pretty much catches you up with me. What’s up with you.

Let’s take a minute to discuss the never ending bane of every house wife, working woman, and single men everywhere.

Laundry

Piles and piles of laundry

Never ending laundry

As I make the transition to a stay at home mom, laundry has become a constant in my life. It is the little thing that is always niggling at the back of my brain that needs to be done. Three growing children and two adults generate a lot laundry. Throw in a baby – and the laundry loads grow exponentially. How one little peanut of a baby can make so much dirty laundry, is beyond me. Frankly, I think that Mark gets up in the middle of the night and randomly dirties the baby’s clothes, so that I have more laundry to do… but that is beside the point.

Someday, when no one had heard from me for four or five days, a search party will enter the house. After mounting an expedition over Mount Sheets, around the Towel Range, and through the Valley of Mismatched Socks, they will find me. I’ll be surrounded by piles of dirty tee shirts, knitting used fabric softener sheets into scarves and mumbling to myself about proper stain care.

There is only thing that can save me from my eventual fate of laundry idiocy. I need a washer/dryer that picks my dirty clothes out of wherever they are hiding, sorts and separates, washes, dries and hangs up the clothes.

And the corresponding dishwasher wouldn’t hurt either.

I’m back!

Woo hoo!

Where did I go?

Well - I did the whole “have a baby thing”.

Then my hosting ran out, and I was just a little to sleep deprived to notice for a little bit.

Some of us were sleeping, but not me.

But now I am mildly caught up on my sleep… so I will be around here more often. I swear!

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