Clearly keeping up with this thing has not been a top priority. I suppose it's typical during the school year. Too busy, and sometimes I think life is just too boring to describe every day. Well life certainly has been busy. Tomorrow is Halloween. This past weekend slipped by like pumpkin seeds from the strings. Saturday night Kris and I went to Mason's for a small party. I was DD and Kris got a little too excited about this and ended up sick. It was actually very funny. One moment he's sitting on a chair laughing and feeling fine, then all of a sudden I see his expression change and he knows in an instant he's in trouble. He didn't get sick, thankfully, but I did end up leaving him there because we couldn't get him in the car. And even if we could, I worried how I would get him out once we got home. So the next morning Mason drove him home and I bought bagels for everyone. It was a typical, learned-your-lesson experience. The next day we helped his whole family move a desk from his sister's house to another person's house out in Anthem. Kristen just got a new mini van and unfortunately hit a rake on the freeway and popped a tire. She just got the car Friday. So there was a big fiasco trying to put the spare on and get the tire fixed and then get the desk out. I told Kris on the way out to the other house about how I was noting the differences between our families. If there was something wrong with a car, I call my dad. My sister would probably call AAA or someone like that. If something needed to be moved, we'd all call dad and have "his boys" do it. Versus the entire family and baby doing the job. The things we take for granted. I haven't been home in a long time. I stopped by about three weeks ago, but that doesn't count. I kind of miss it. Not for the walls or the floors or the chotchkees, but for the full experience of a Sunday afternoon. Family over, doors open, music or the game on, good food... Hm, I'm at Jackie's and it sounds like the baby girl is stirring. Better go get her. I'll be back again, soon, I hope. Carrie