Finally home

Five weeks on the road.

It may take us five weeks to get everything put back in order, catch up on the mail, and get things back to a nice lived-in look instead of forlorn and abandoned.

We're sorry to report that our stack of mail was about two feet tall. One foot was catalogs, eight inches were bills, and the remainder is now plastered to our fridge. To those of you who sent holiday cards, we thank you. You're a bunch of overachievers but we thank you none the less. To those of you who didn't, we thank you too. It's nice to have company in the we're-loser-slackers category. If there's any money left when we get caught up on the bills, we might be able to afford a few thank-you letters. Don't hold your breath!

I have a few more days of lazing around while the wife works. School starts the 17th. I've got my backpack and my lunch box. Need to get pencils, books, binders, and something for show and tell.

All for now. Gotta get started on that "What I did when I was skipping fall term" report.

This looks like just another boring picture of a car packed for the trip home. That's because it is. May I just point out, however, that the roof-top bag was filled with a variety of things on the trip out: stroller, suitcases for all three of us, etc. And on the return trip? Completely stuffed with clothes of the female variety. I nearly had to FedEx my sparse belongings home.

ps: I suppose an Emma update should be given. She can sit up, feed herself Cheerios, fly into a flailing rage when she's not keen on going to sleep, pet Scout, squirm like a fish out of water as she tries desperately to get the hang of crawling, fill her pants to epic proportions, smile and look cute while filling said pants, smile and look cute when she's not filling her pants, look exceptionally cute when she's fast asleep, grab anything and everything within reach, and smile and look cute. Right now she's snot nosed and a little out of sorts but she still manages to smile and look cute.