too much

We like to keep busy enough that our blog is able to be an interesting blog and no more, no less.

As you've well noted ... we've been above or below that level.

Well, it's above, which is unfortunate when you are an introvert who likes to devour books like myself. The past weekends have looked like this:

This weekend - AAU Open House/Sam's sick
Last Weekend - Hosting the Planning-ness conference
2 Weekends ago - Post-surgery hospital stay
3 Weekends ago - Pre-surgery in-law stay w/ a side of 49er's
4 Weekends ago - End of first hospital stay/My brother visited
5 Weekends ago - Mary's brother visited

And before that, we had Outside Lands, new semester for me, Mary sick/losing her job, Sam starting 7th grade and our camping trip.

This is not the pace of life at which we excel. We are feeling the empathetic clutter of our lives recently. However, we'll slowly but surely start sharing it on the blog to just "get it out" and move on. But sorry this blog has sucked lately ... and since this blog is mostly for future self and the curiosity of progeny ... I'm really sorry that I haven't clued in to this immensely complex time in our lives. But we'll get there.

OH - The picture, right ... This is Granny and Gramps taking Zombie Sam out to dinner at Sol Food. Sorry it is blurry but the light was low and there were a lot of people pouring out of the restaurant after Sam's fit of smelling the mixture of brains and plantains (he loves combining rhyming foods these days!)

OK, not true. This is just a) a representation of the hectic pace of life recently and b) a reminder of Sam's fascination with zombies lately. He has read Zombie Survival Guide and listened to World War Z on audio (he is very glad Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks found each other) and is about to start listening to Breathers. This is his halloween shirt; we may do a Blade thing - where he is a part-zombie zombie-killer.