Excuses abound for neglecting one’s blog…

• I’m too busy.
• My computer crashed.
• I have writer’s block.
• I’m on vacation.
• I’m sick.
• The kids are sick.
• My dog’s sick.

I think at one point during my three and half year blogging journey, I have used each of those…at least once.  However, none of those reasons can account for my recent disappearance.

Basically, I was lost.  No, not that kind of lost.  I was this kind of LOST…

I could not blog for the past week because for every waking moment that I was not teaching Bonny Annie and Dirty Harry, or taking care of Cap’n Jack Henry, or making dinner, or doing laundry, I was watching Season 5 of the TV show “Lost.”

If you’ve seen this program, you probably understand.  I watched seasons 1 & 2 on borrowed DVDs.  Then I watched seasons 3 & 4 over the summer on Netflix livestreaming on my laptop while I nursed the baby.  But season 5….whoa!  Season 5!…I had to watch it early in the morning, huddled on my bed, hoping I didn’t wake anyone else up and be forced to make them oatmeal.  Or during Jack Henry’s naptime, allowing the big kids to play the Wii for forty-five minutes, so I could sneak in an episode.  I even locked myself in my bathroom one night and watched one episode while taking a bubble bath and drinking a Bartle and James margarita.  No, I’m not kidding.

So, anyway, I just wanted to let you know that I’m okay.  I’m still alive and well.  I’m planning on watching the 6th and final season of this series on TV when it begins on February 2nd.  I think we can all agree that watching one episode a week is going to be much healthier for me, my family and this blog.