sorry

for my loooong absence. I've spent the last month visiting babies, family and friends and eating everything in sight.  I was just much, much too happy to blog.  You would have been sickened by it.  

But of course, it wasn't all good.  Getting home and back was tortuous.  I know that sitting on a plane with hours and hours of free time might sound like a luxury, but when the hours of sitting stretch beyond the 20s, things get a little rough.  Especially because we spent some of that time on American Airlines, which is a disgrace to its namesake.  Truly, utterly, a disgusting and disreputable airline, put to shame by every other airline I've ever flown, including Air India.  And that's saying something!

Anyway, it was all worth it to see the family and friends we've been missing for a year.  We also enjoyed the novelties of: driving our cars, walking places, alcohol in restaurants and fungus-free skin, brought to us by cold weather.   

We also spent some time preparing for our new life back in Iowa.  Things seem to be falling in place with just a few small details still to work out, such as: I still need to get accepted into grad school and Brad still needs to find a job...but those are tiny, tiny details, nothing at all to worry about.

Between now and back to Iowa, Brad and I will be here, doing our honest best to enjoy our last months of this crazy lifestyle.  So, please, dear readers, re-tune your computers here.  I promise it will be interesting.