Recap, 2011 Style

**Real blog post below. This is just a quick, happy holiday post that is quite late. Here’s our Christmas card this year:

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Friends,

It’s been 6 weeks since my last post. Forgive me.

It’s not like anything has happened. I mean, my one and only daughter turned two. We had seven Christmases. And I’m trying to launch a new business.

So. What?

Oh.my.god.I.miss.blogging.so.much.

But I think the phrase blog burnout applied to me. I needed to take just enough time away to realize how much I really love thrusting my candy-coated life onto the people who virtually surround me. Because Facebook isn’t enough.

The problem with blogging is that it takes a lot of time to do it right. Taking the pictures, editing the pictures, writing the post and hitting “Publish” (saying “editing the post” would be a direct insult to any copy anywhere that has ever been edited) takes a while. And I have other stuff I like to do. Like:

• Watch “Friday Night Lights” on Netflix.
• Read the Hunger Games series.
• Watch all the shows that started up again this January, including “My Girl,” “Big Bang Theory,” “Parks & Rec,” “Vampire Diaries,” “Rock Center with Brian Williams,” “Suburbia,” “The Middle” and “Modern Family.”
• Stare sadly at the HUGE list of TV shows I watch and wonder if there’s something bigger to be addressed here?
• Work on {ka}BOOM, my new business. (Launching for real in April 2012.)
• Vacuum the hair from my two golden retrievers. Day.after.day.after.day.

On the other hand, I like having a place where I can write a first draft, push “Publish” and not have someone return it to me with minor changes.

I like being able to put up pictures of my delicious daughter that I can look at from anywhere and melt my heart.

I like knowing that my far-away friends and family look at this site and feel a connection to my life that I can’t replicate because let’s face it, I’m not good with the phone. (And feeling like they actually like it, too.)

And I like having a place that keeps track of my life. The idea that 30 years from now, I might look back at this and think, “Boy, her second birthday … That was really some tutu!”

So, friends, I’m back. I’m making it a goal to post twice a week from now on. While I launch a business. And learn to sew. And read like crazy. (And apparently sit in a stupor in front of the TV.)

Lots of pictures to come recapping Tabby’s birthday, Christmas and other fun stuff.

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