*UPDATED AT THE BOTTOM OF POST*

Wowza.
I was gone from the blogs a lot longer than I anticipated.
I am sure that most of you have fired me from your blogrolls or feeds but I deserve it so there are absolutely NO hard feelings.

Things have happened.
Oh yes. They have.

My kids are getting bigger, cuter, and oh-my-goodness more difficult to manage. (aka: Helene and her Taj Mahal sized “personality” and Simon and his tremendous urge to do everything by himself. WOW. Help. me.)

I took my children on an airplane A.LONE. To see my in-laws.
See how the crazy is still with me? Yeah.
The “to” trip was uneventful except that I was acutely aware that I only have two hands. Uh-huh. Just two.
The “back” trip was, in a word, horrendous. Hor.ren.dous. I’m not going to describe it, I’m just going to ask you to imagine a three year old, a four year old, and ONE tired Mother. Oh yeah… And the three and four year old running in separate directions, away from said Mother, in a crowded airport terminal. Nice. Once again I gave a crowd of people just one more reason to practice birth control.

I cut my hair even shorter.

My neck is officially exposed!!!

I LOVE it. You may not, but I do. And I do not miss my long hair one bit.

I have a new found love of TV and my DVR. I am loving Meerkat Manor and the TCM channel. I know. I’m an old lady. But I’m happy so back off. (And feisty, apparently.) TCM constantly has movies on that I end up LOVING. If you have some time to kill I would advise renting “The Awful Truth“, “Arsenic and Old Lace“, “Suspicion“, “GiGi“, and “A Place In The Sun“.

Ah, yes. And a good friend of mine who lives far, far away took some amazing pictures of my children. You are about to be overloaded with the cuteness of my children.
I hope you are ready.

Told you.
Gorgeous.
And I take half the credit.
(90% credit in Helene’s case, however.)

**Updated!!!**
Looks like I came back to the blogs just in time!!
You all know how I am a glutton for punishment via blog contests, right?
Well, here’s another one!!!
The Domestic Diva is having a contest to win a PINK Dyson vacuum cleaner!

HOLY.MOLY. This is in honor of Breast Cancer Awareness Month and well, I really, REALLY would love to have a PINK vacuum. Wouldn’t you? Yeah. I thought so. Go to the Diva and enter THE CONTEST of my life. I’m being really nice (and following the rules) by even telling you about this! I hope this is my turn to win something!

~wincing eyes~ please please please please please please please please
~yelling at the air~ PLEASE!!!!!!!!