Checking In

Just a short post to let y'all know that I am, in fact, NOT buried under a pile of diaper laundry and am still alive and well... unfortunately, however, my computer is not... alive, that is... it decided about 3 or 4 weeks ago to just up and quit... didn't comply with that two-week's notice rule or anything... (and it's not even two years old! - anyone in the market for a new computer, beware: don't buy an E-machine!) So I have suddenly been left with no way to write any blog entries or read any of my subscriptions (although I'm caught up for now, as of today) or compare double stroller prices (not that I need to anymore - we found a used-but-almost-new Graco DuoGlider for $70 at Once Upon a Child... good place to check out for anyone needing baby stuff but unable or unwilling to pay for the brand-new stuff). Hopefully, we'll either get our computer fixed or replaced in the next couple weeks (the former being the preferred option!), and then I can post again.

But the cloth diaper experiment has been quite successful so far - I actually don't feel like I'm doing an excessive amount of laundry and the ones we bought are really absorbent and easy to use... so I think we'll keep it up. Of course, we're back in Disposable Land for the week while we're on vacation in Virginia (can you imagine toting a big bag of filthy, stinky diapers all around Virginia in the middle of the summer in a car with no A/C!?) We left Friday morning and drove to Covington, VA, where we camped overnight (which would have been fun, except that we got caught in a thunderstorm/torrential downpour and ended up soaked with not much sleep), and then stopped in Lexington for a visit to Stonewall Jackson's home/gravesite, then on to Hampton to spend a few days with some good friends we know from Toronto. Tomorrow we're on to Richmond to spend a day with my maternal grandparents, and then we've got a 4-day family reunion in Harrisonburg (my dad's side), before returning home... So it's a kind of busy trip, but nice just to be away from our normal routine and spending time with friends and family. Went to Virginia Beach yesterday - had a good time except that Susanna was terrified to go anywhere near the water (although she LOVES to swim in a pool) and Nathan turned into a lobster

Anyway, what was going to be just a short post has turned into a rather long one... hopefully, we'll have a home computer again soon and I'll be a regular blogger again! For now, I'm going to go back to sitting around eating junk and doing squat!