Y such a long break?

Remember way, way, way back to March 2012?  Well, that's when I decided to write a blog.  I'm pretty sure it was at the prodding, cajoling, and other big -ing words from my dear friend, Bena.  I was looking for (or Bena told me I was looking for) an outlet to express my thoughts about the new life I was living as 30 year old, newly remarried stepmom in the suburbs.  I like to write and I am never at a loss for words, so why not? It was also to make my dad laugh. He finds me to be quite hilarious.  In fact, I think he was one of 5 people who actually read the blog.  When I left you readers (all 5 of you) with a huge cliffhanger about Tiko, my dad was the only one who bugged me about writing the next part of that story. By the way, please notice that I figured out how to link back to that post.  I'm quite proud of myself!

But, I flaked.  I stopped blogging. I stopped writing.  I'm probably not going to ever finish that Tiko post .  Honestly, I don't remember what my plan was for the second part!  Until today, this blog had all but become a dusty book on the library shelves of my memory.  Well, now I am officially 32 (my birthday is in June), I've been married for almost 2 years, and my stepkids are growing like weeds before my eyes.  I still haven't gotten used to suburbia.  Life is hectic and active.  I would say life is busy, but my husband abhors the word "busy" so I'll say "active" instead!

So, I suppose I'll dust myself off and start again.  Just to remind you, this might be a:

-parenting blog
-a blog full of relationship advice
-a blog dedicated to fundraising and non-profits
-a funny blog
-a blog riddled with incorrect grammar, crazy attempts at punctuation, and an obscene amount of parenthesis and ellipses...

It's back.  I'm back.  I promise to (try and) do better this time!