Oh Hai.

Wow.

So this is the night I start blogging again, apparently.  Just opened up Blogger and started writing.

So much has happened, so many many good, happy things.  Some big, some little.  And some not-so-happy things too.  But they have all been necessary, balancing things.  Specific, I know.  But it is hard to know where to start, what to say.  Every day - literally EVERY DAY - I think of something to write about.  I think of something to say - to someone out there, or to no one in particular - something that I don't want to forget, something Eliza said, something we did as a family, some random bit of parental fodder, a frustration, a question... And yet somehow I haven't.  Four months have gone by since we moved and I have left this space empty and neglected.  Someone asked me if I had abandoned my blog, and I thought that sounded so sad (poor, poor little abandoned blog!), but I guess that's what happened.

Geesh, somehow this feels so weird.  Guess I need to stretch my writing legs.  But I thought to just jump into a list of "what we've been up to", as if no time passed, would be forced.  Part of the reason I stopped writing was because I felt so immersed in and enchanted by our new neighborhood, a new way of living our daily lives, I didn't think I would miss writing.  But oh.  How I've missed it.

I've also missed the conversation and connection with you all.  Looking forward to getting back into it. I hope I find a routine and a new way of incorporating this space into my life again.  I want to for so many reasons... not the least of which is this girl right here:

Oh hai.  I've been here the whole time, talking like a second grader, eating raw pasta, cracking jokes, generally being cute, and also sometimes so frustrating that my mommy has to drink wine at night with her friends.
But! I'm finally sleeping through the night so she forgives me.