Without offering excuses, but to give you a peek into the (positive) mayhem that is my life, here are a few of the reasons you haven’t seen a ton of depth here recently:

* lots of people in & out of my house: new furnace, counters, carpet, appliances, bathroom tile, paint, blah, blah, blah.  It is unbelievably time consuming to pull your house from the late ’90’s into today!

* a break in the water main.  Good timing.

* fast and furious editing on a book proposal.  I LOVE it, but it doesn’t leave a lot of leisure time on the table.

* a blog re-work is in the works, which means I’ve spent a lot of time on this blog lately, you just can’t see it yet.  Maybe by the end of the year?

* iPhoto trouble.  It’s very hard for me to admit this, even to myself, but I accidentally deleted all 13,000+ photos I had on iPhoto.  They were all cataloged by child, place, date.  It was beautiful.  Since that day I’ve had a difficult time taking photos and haven’t loaded a single one on to iPhoto.  Blogging isn’t nearly as fun without the photos.  I’m just sick about it.  And, yes, I’ve already been to the Apple store for help.  I think they wanted to roll their eyes, but they just kindly told me I was out of luck.  Stupid.

* 3 boys in 3 schools and difficulty saying ‘no’ to volunteering in any of them.

* coaching a boys basketball team which, again, I LOVE, but any leisure time left after the book proposal editing is pretty much eaten up by planning plays, practices, and game rotations.

* friends.  Of all of the things I’ll jettison to clear my schedule, friends aren’t one of them.

But you’re my friends, too–more depth here soon, I promise!