Updates (finally)!

I know it's been a long time since I have posted anything...but I have some good excuses!

1) My mom has been in the hospital for 7 weeks (see next post for explanation if you don't already know) but she is home now and doing VERY well!

2) My job has kept me late at work and out of town a lot so there has been no time to blog!

3) Final exams - enough said!

4) I can't find the cord to download the pictures from my camera and I hate posts with no pictures. I've had three posts waiting to be published, but I didn't have any pictures to put in them :(

Anyway...excuses or not I figured it was time for some updates now that life seems to be getting better and I am sitting at home on a "snow" day (we're still waiting for it to start snowing). Hopefully I will find the camera cord soon and there will probably be a post of nothing but pictures to catch up, but for now I went ahead and published the posts that I've been saving. Make sure you scroll down through the next three or four posts and get caught up! More to come soon - I promise!