Getting caught up

I've been a bad blogger again, and while I could resolve to be better, I'm not sure what I can promise right now! I'm finding myself so busy between work, my kids, running and my business, that lots of things have fallen by the wayside. This includes housework and blogging. Add my facebook addiction to that mix, and you have a recipe for neglect.

Let's see, shall I try to summarize the past 5 months?

There's the trip to Disney in August I never blogged about:



We had a financial windfall, which was great but strange since it came the same week as the failure of AIG and Lehman Brothers.

I ran the Philadelphia Distance Run (which I did blog about, see below).

Halloween and another beautiful fall in Philadelphia:





The Phillies won the World Series!



A certain election happened here in the US!

We went to Maine for Thanksgiving.




Annika & Ally danced in the Nutcracker.




We went to New York the week before Christmas, and then we had Christmas.



In early January Tom and I ran the Disney Half Marathon, and had a blast! I plan to post a full trip report in the near future, but here are a few teaser photos.






We finished up January with a one-night "Cruise to Nowhere"out of New York with my wonderful sister and her husband, and 2 of our best friends. Sorry, no pictures of that - I just forgot to take any.

In the middle of all that I found out I was pregnant and had a miscarriage, which was a big deal (to say the least!). Also during the past few months: we had both of our cars hit by our neighbor - one totalled, the other fixable; Hannah started at a new high school; I went to several travel industry conferences and learned a lot; joined BNI which has been amazing; took a 10% pay cut and (hopefully very temporarily) lost our family's health insurance; booked a summer trip to Europe for all of us; Will applied to high schools; we bought a new car, drove the kids to a million activities, and generally were in a whirlwind of activity.

There, now you're all caught up!