After a few weeks away from my computer, I am happy to be back. A couple of days ago the cable guy came and hooked me up with a cable modem; it took him almost 3 hours because the cable lines in this house are a)old and b)screwy. What we've found in the past couple weeks is that there aren't enough outlets or phone jacks in the house, and the ones that do exist are in highly inconvenient places. Also, for some reason the prior owners tried to cover up a few of the cable outlets with wooden blocks, which I thought odd. The cable outlets weren't in the right place for the computer and we only have one TV, but why not just put furniture in front of them?

To each their own, I guess.

Anyway, we are at least in the house now. I have most of the kids' books unpacked and enough of mine on the shelves that I no longer feel deprived. I am still surrounded by a wall of boxes as I type, though, and this is unlikely to change at any kind of quick pace. I am hot, very large, and having mild contractions which don't necessitate bed rest as of yet, but have gotten me the "when it's hot, don't do anything and drink plenty of water" speech. The babies, in spite of everything, are growing like weeds. (Except weeds don't move around this much -- oy!) We did manage to spend a few days on vacation in Rhode Island, though, which we all desparately needed. I like Rhode Island. Any state that has a city named "Woonsocket" has to be sort of interesting, doesn't it?

No writing, of course -- I don't know what I was thinking. (I also got to a place in the new project where I basically ground to a halt because I realized I know nothing about growing indigo. This would seem to be a minor point to anybody but me.) Instead I've been rereading a lot of my education/homeschooling books (those are the books I can find at this point, but also we are working through some "issues" and I need to try to wrap my mind around some concepts for the zillionth time. When I was in school I thought I ought to be able to read a book once and get most of what I needed from it, but what I am finding out the longer I'm out of school is that I really need to read books through several times before the information really sinks in. At least with concept/theory books, etc, and/or anything to do with kids. Because kids are hard.)

So that's me, in a nutshell. Hopefully life will begin inching toward "normal" -- for a few weeks anyway. I'm 27 weeks pregnant as of this week, so it's not far now, Papa Smurf. And have I mentioned that we have nothing ready in the babies' room???