If you are reading this, yes I am here! If you leave you should be able to come back…. See, there are things called servers, nodes, and mother boards, stuff that I turn over to professionals to take care of because I have a bunch of other stuff to do all day long. Occasionally, no matter what you are paying them, they send you emails using words and phrases like, “emergency, catastrophic, and total data loss” and you have to just back away and let them take care of things.
While waiting for my site and a few others to come back from website purgatory, I was able to spend some quality time with my husband at a blogging conference. I learned a lot of really cool new things and met some AWESOME people.
These are a few of my take a way’s that I want to share with you:
- If you eat non-stop on vacation you WILL gain weight. Let’s get that insight out of the way.
- If you watch “The Help” on the plane in the dark with lots of dark eye makeup on and start crying. The cute male flight attendant will ask you if you are O.K. and proceed to hold your hand and find you something to clean mascara off your checks.
- EVERYONE else on the planet owns a black wheeled suitcase.
- Your husband can sing “Baby Got Back” to karaoke with 2 other frugal blogger back up “dancers” on stage and you don’t have to change your last name. Don’t ask.
- My sister is a ROCK STAR for watching my kids and only lost 1 of them, but found them an hour later. Everyone is fine.
- I seriously love my blog, and my little space here on the web so much that I get physically sick when my site doesn’t come up.
- If the nice people at the airport say your plane leaves from gate C16 and you sit at C17, you will miss your plane.
It’s good to be home, both on the web and physically!! I missed you guys!

Part comedian, part Dad, part athlete. He will boss around your children while they play ball.
Just as angelic as she looks, this girl could easily raise a Village by herself, and all the children would grow up to be President.
Self proclaimed, she would be a webkinz dog. Because, "they're cute, and puppies are too. And they're sweet and they always get along with other puppies."
This mini-Martha Stewart can handle ANY craft you send her way. She isn't all bows and rainbows, she's got karate kid moves!
Not "Pick-Me-Up" like caffeine, she wants you to pick her up! AND NOW!
Anything that can be destroyed WILL be destroyed!
Practically Perfect in Every Way for now! Nicknamed "The Panda" she is rolly polly and lives by the motto, "the little one, is KING!"
The resident Labradoodle, Miller got his name because Mom won and got to name the baby! Need something chewed up? He'll take care of it. Especially if it's expensive..
Glad ya’ll had a good time! Even more glad that your back. Did you video Paul?? I could use another good laugh 🙂 post it if you did lol Thanks for everything you do
I LOVE THE LIST AND YOUR SITE.
Better yet…did your sister write another post on watching your children?? The last one was HILARIOUS
Not yet, she is still recovering…
You have the most awesome family !! This is my favorite site and the first one I check everyday.