Clearly I maintain a love/hate relationship with ye' ole blogging. Though finding the time to pick up a pen and journal and actually *write* something these days seems nearly impossible.

For my children: I will spend the next however-long-it-takes (let's face it, an eternity) painstakingly filtering through my thousands of photos in an attempt to recollect the last year of missed posting (which means many of these new posts have been backdated). Here goes.