1. Birthdays…Mine, my father in law, Dean, a school friend of Atticus and a playgroup buddy. Not to mention Em in another 2 weeks, only after a couple more friends.

2. The unfortunate passing and or injury of several people not necessarily close yet close enough to others around us to set things off kilter.

3. The switching of my afternoon runs to early morning runs. I have so much more time with the kids during the day, yet lose consciences almost the instant my ass hits the couch at night. Since night time after the kids were asleep was my usual blogging time I am still trying to re-adjust.

4. Cakes.

5. Soccer. I am officially a soccer mom!

6. The impending start of school and the many casseroles that come with it.

Now that you have my reasons, I promise to try harder. Really.