the excuses. i have so many.

So I disappeared off the blogoshere last week. My bad. I have several very valid excuses, if you’d like to hear them:

1. My kids decided to start waking up one hour earlier in the morning for no apparent reason except perhaps just being mean. And Colin has started waking up at night again, which is deeping my already unhealthy relationship with my coffeepot.
2. My in-laws arrived from India  on Tuesday. (No thanks to British Airways which is on strike and volcanos acting up. Their flight got changed at the last minute so we learned they were arriving on Tuesday, but we didn’t know what flight or what airline, but thankfully, we practically tripped over my father-in-law as we walked into the Philadelphia airport! A miracle if I ever saw one!) But we’re trying to catch up with them and having people in the house makes for a busier schedule.
3. So along with having my in-laws staying here, preschool ended last week. PRESCHOOL ENDED LAST WEEK. So my productivity has taken a major nosedive, as I no longer have 3 sweet hours of the day when no one is talking to me, asking for snacks, or needing me to untangle toys that are somehow stuck in their hair.
4. I’m suddenly swamped with design jobs. Which is good (Work!! Yay!) and bad (Sleep? Fat chance!). I’ll be shutting down my design queue inthe middle of June for a few weeks, so if you’re itchin’ for a bog redesign, let me know.
5. It was like 110 degrees last week in Philly. And the week before, we had the heat on. At this rate, we’ll probably skip fall alltogether and go directly into winter at the end of June.  What the heck, Mother Nature? Am I the only one who is completely unmotivated to do anything except drink frozen cocktails when its really hot out?

Anyway, in the mean time, I redesigned my blog! What do you think?