Catching up

We're back from vacation and it's time to get back to real life, where one of the many things I have to catch up on is my blog.

For our vacation we went from cool and foggy Northern California to hot and muggy Minnesota. We spent four days at Craig's family reunion at a lakeside resort in the northern part of Minnesota, and another four days with my cousin's family in urban Minneapolis. (We made the same trip three years ago in 2007, both the reunion and my cousin.)

Compounding my need to catch up with things, Craig was out of the country for three weeks immediately prior to our trip. He flew back from China on Thursday the 5th and we flew out to Minnesota on Friday the 6th. That was his second three-week trip of the summer, which, you may recall, included a total of 35 days spent away from home. But he's home now!

So I have a chance to get caught up, which is good because I have a lot of things to write about. How was the vacation? (Great!) How were my six weeks of single-parenting? (Not bad, actually, especially since I lowered my expectations of accomplishing anything.) How many words does Laurel say by now? (Probably 200.) Has she gained any weight? (I don't know.)

But for now I must stop, because I have another thing to catch up on: my sleep.