M.I.A.

i have been missing the past few days. and i apologize. please don't think i have abandoned you.

here's the thing. for the first 3 days, we were planning a surprise. and i am not very good at keeping secrets. i tend to share too much. and the more i try to share everything BUT the thing in question, i end up letting it slip. so i decided to cut myself off for a little bit. that was thursday.

on saturday, we threw my little sister a surprise 21st birthday! (come back on WINEsday wednesday for more from that)i wanted to get on and do stick figure saturday, because that's my favorite thing and i even missed that.

and then, well, i got lazy. i admit it. i just didn't come back on sunday. because we stayed up way too late. and woke up way too early. and sat on the back porch while it stormed outside and bella fell asleep on my chest while we rocked in the hammock. i was enjoying it way too much to even think about the computer.

so today, i decided to gracde the blogosphere with my presence to see what i missed (a lot) and catch up on my writing a little.

bella and i are visiting family in NC and then in FL over the next 2 weeks, so posts may be sporadic, but fear not, i will be back! especially on WINEsday. as you know, that's my favorite day of the week. any excuse to sit around drinking wine.

what? did you just call me CRazY!? ::insert googly eyes::

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

Albert Einstein

well, mr. einstein, call me crazy then.

i clean my house, every (other) day, expecting it to stay clean. i do my dishes (whenever i feel like it) expecting that they stay clean/don't load up in the sink again. i vacuum the floor (once a week? i don't know i can't remember.) and expect that the next time i do it, i don't overload the canister with dog fur. (can you see the downward spiral of disaster about to come?)

call my husband crazy, too.

he comes in the door and leaves a trail behind him of his uniform (which consists of WAY too many pieces, might i add), stretching from the front door to the shower and expects the next morning to see it washed and hung up, waiting for him.

baby? she must be a little nuts as well.

because she keeps pulling herself up on the coffee table, and then can't get back down. so she "walks" in circles around it. i guess expecting that it will eventually lead her back to the ground? and she keeps putting bugs in her mouth. maybe thinking that one day they will turn in to her yummy puffs? there's no tellin' what's going on in that kids head. she is really crazy.

and the dog? don't even get me started.

he scratches at the door, expecting that his lazy mommy and daddy will actually get up and take him out for a walk. he barks at the squirrels outside, thinking he can catch them if he could just get through that window. and for some strange reason, he thinks that if he stares at her long enough, the baby will go away.

see, over in the nelson house? we're all a little kooky. if you come visit, you might walk away a little kooky too. which is why i love wine. in large quantities.

thanks for sticking around for my big bunch of loony.