Twas Brillig

Yeah.  Hi.  I’m alive.  Who knew?

Well, not YOU, because I haven’t been in touch.

Guess where I am.

Go on.  Guess.

For those of you who said, “I’m guessing that Brillig is at the Highland’s Ranch Public Library,” you would be correct.

Because I still don’t have internet at my house.

And yet my heart is still beating…

…faintly.

This is the first time I’ve been in front of a computer since the last post I wrote two weeks ago!!!  I’ve missed you SO MUCH!!!  Oh, and the title of my post?  Completely true.  That’s AFTER deleting the spam.  So… yeah.  It’s gonna be a while before I get back to all my dear ones.  But I can’t tell you how much I appreciate all the thoughts and love in my absence!

Oh.  So, get this.  Guess where my oldest two kids are!

Go on.  Guess.

If you said, “I bet they’re in school because school here is year-round and the first day of the new school year was TODAY,” you’d be correct again.

Yup.  July 9th is the first day of the school year.  Holy crap.

So, that’s what I’ve been doing for the last two weeks, besides the whole, oh, MOVING thing.  I’ve been racing to get my kids ready for school.  I had NO IDEA that they’d be starting today when I first got here.  A kind neighbor let me in on that little secret a few days after we arrived here.  WOWZERS.  I was stunned!  I thought I had till September—or at least August.  So, I’ve been racing around getting Bubba all of his immunizations and paper work in for Kindergarten and Fluffy’s school records transferred, etc.  Oh, and shopping for the TEN BILLION items on their “school supplies” lists.  And spending way too much money on new clothes for them.  It’s crazy, but it’s also good.  I’m happy because THEY are SO HAPPY!  And they were SO cute in their brand new clothes with their brand new back packs.  Oh, I could just die of cuteness.  Seriously.  Dying here.

Okay, that doesn’t really catch you up, but at least you know that I’m thinking about you and missing you.  I really will start reading my email— when I don’t have children strapped into a stroller screaming. 

(Yeah—they JUST threw me out of the grown-ups section of the library because my kids were so loud.  THEY THREW ME OUT!  It’s been a long time since I’ve felt quite this… um… embarrassed.  I think my face was purple.  But I’m over it now—and writing to you from the CHILDREN’s section of the library, where my kids can scream and they fit right in.  I, however, look a bit awkward on the little tiny chair in the little child-size cubby that I’m writing you from.  hahahahahaha.)

Join us next week (oh, gosh, please let it be sooner than that!) when the Brillig gang will hopefully have joined the 21st century and have internet in their very own home… 

(And I know that a few of you are wondering about your guest-posts, since I kinda left you hanging.  I’ve received them and they’ll be published as soon as I can get that organized.  Thanks again for playing along with the guest bloggity blogness-ness!)