Hello.

Consider this an apology more than anything else.

I know I have been MIA in the past months (has it been that long?).  Please let me explain.

It goes something like this…  remember that baby I had? The one that was just starting to bloom, exploring language, figuring out life?  Well, she’s all grown up it seems.  Yep, I now have a little girl and the baby is all gone.  It seems like over night that Piper went from a toddler content with examining her socks for hours on end and going to bed at 7:30, to this… this… amazing little girl who soaks up life at every second and responds to me as a complete person.

Gone are the days where my evenings stretched before me with hours of time to spare, all for me.  Now, after dinner with the family, the chirping begins.

“Mommy, come play with me.”

“Mommy, come read to me.”

“Mommy, come draw with me.”

“Mommy, come cuddle with me.”

And the thing is?  I want to cuddle, I want to play, I want to draw.  It’s not like I don’t want to blog or catch up on what everyone is up to and how your little ones are also blossoming by leaps and bounds.  I just can’t keep up with my own budding flower at this point.

And then there is the job, the one that has hit a critical point, a top-priority-everything-must-get-done-right-now point.  And I want to deliver and do well with that, even if it keeps me at the office an hour later each night, or makes me go in an hour earlier in the morning, or makes me work through my lunch (which tends to be my real blogging time, but please don’t tell).

I’m still here!  Thanks for asking, all you guys!  And I do still care very much how everyone is and what you are all up to.  When things slow down at work, or the little one can manage without me for a spell, I will be back and catching up.  I often have posts to write, but somehow feel like it’s cheating to post while knowing all too well I can’t reciprocate back right now.  So, I find myself holding off until I can do it right.

And I still want to go to BlogHer this year, so I am saving my pennies!!! 

Worst case scenario? We catch up in person!  I can live with that for now, can you?

P.S. Just for the record, my bloglines alert is telling me I have 864 new posts to read! I’m trying to get there my friends, I’m trying!