Hiatus: Over.

At least, here's hoping. You know how sometimes there's something hanging over your head that you know you need to do, and how every day that passes makes it harder and harder to do, until actually doing it seems like obscene ridiculousness because it's been so long?

Oooobviously, that's how I've been feeling about the blog.

Fortunately for all you faithful readers (or maybe more accurately by now, all you faithful reader, singular), my mother is keeping me on the ball. Here's tonight's email, verbatim:

Seriously! Are you still without internet connection?! I need my blog fix !!!! What can we do to facilitate a new post?! Do I need to talk to Tony? I love you, get inspired, your fans are waiting with bated breath.

Your momma

There were a few more smiley faces and hearts that for some reason my copy-paste method deleted, which I felt needed mentioning as they offset the general commanding tone of the thing. She demands because she loves.

Really. If my mom didn't ask about my blog, I'd feel like it was time to remove myself from the blog world for lack of interest. Love you, Mom! I and my extensive audience and corporate sponsors thank you. Or...maybe just me.

So anyway, it's time for the traditional spewing-of-all-pictures-that-have-been-taken-in-the-nineteen-years-since-my-last-post. Take a deep breath.

During our 3-week extended Thanksgiving trip to Memphis, the kids did a lot of this:

{yeah, he's sitting straight up}

...this:

{in Katie and Andrew's supercute guest room}

...this:

{as comfortable as it looks, it didn't last long, dangit}

...and this:

{WHAT?! Who taught him to do that? GROWING UP IS NOT ALLOWED!}

That's all my stupid inconsistent internet will let me upload. So much for spewing. Will try again soon, I promise!

Thanks for coming back, reader[s]!