It's been awhile since I've added anything to the site.  If I go more than a day or so without adding something new my friend Kathy makes sure to let me know that she's waiting.  My cousin Jenine sent me an email this week asking if everything is alright - because she didn't know - I hadn't been updating the site.  So, in case you were wondering, here's a list of reasons why I've been such a slacker:

1.  I've become temporarily addicted to something else.  24.  After I finished watching the whole Six Feet Under series on DVD I added 24 to our Netflix queue.  Normally I watch episodes while I exercise, but Marty has gotten into the series too so we've been watching it at night after the kids go to bed.  Obviously, this has been cutting into my writing time... thus one big reason for the delay.
2.  I've been in kind of a writing slump that I blame totally on my own statistic-watching self.  When I started this site, I did it so that I'd have a place to share stories and pictures with family and friends, and to make up for not ever journaling or doing baby books.  I figured that it would serve as a personal record for the stuff we do, places we've been, and would preserve stories that I certainly would forget later.  Little did I know that I would become consumed with knowing how much traffic the site has been getting.  Or that I'd obsessively check to see if there were any comments.  Or wonder why no one had been commenting.  Then I started to feel a little dumb about it - why would I care about any of those things when that wasn't my intention in the first place?  I've been reading some other blogs and it seems as though this is an epidemic - lots of people feel that way.  So I've been trying to take some of the self-imposed pressure off of myself and take myself a lot less seriously.  This isn't a commerce-driven site and I don't have to think of ways to generate traffic, retain customers, or take any other action that includes a "business-y" kind of word.  It is my PERSONAL site.  And I can do whatever I want (but keep coming back, okay?).
3.  My boss (also known as Marty) recently told me that he'd like me to start working more.  When he said it, I started laughing then had to stop because I realized he was serious.  It's been almost a year since I left my full-time job and started working for him as a contract employee.  During this time, he's been working almost every single day for between 10-24 hours a day.  Since his work schedule has been so gross, we've modified our lives so that I'm picking up more of the stuff around here and taking time while our nanny is here to do non-work related things.  Like exercising, showering, running errands, cooking and caring for our family.  The result is that I've had a very relaxed schedule, working most weeks around 25 hours.  It's been very nice, but I guess that it's time for me to make another shift and start tacking on a few more hours a week.  Once I stop mourning the loss of my part-time life of leisure, that is.

So, all excuses aside, things are fine here.  I haven't run out of things to say and I'll be adding more over the next few days.  Unless the last disc from 24: Season One arrives, then it might be awhile.