Worst. Blogger. Ever.

So, I've been doing a lot over the last 4 (FOUR!) months. And taking pictures. And making notes to myself that all start "Update blog!"

Has that happened? Hahahhaa - no.

I've begun building my own furniture! And, thanks to living on a nice, proper street in Suburbia with lots of little kids around, have been learning to say, "Shoot!" "Dangit!" and "Fudge!" when I cut myself or accidentally try to hammer my thumb into a board instead of a nail. The last thing I need is little kids learning from me the language I've spent 24 years picking up from various sources. Especially not D. D is my favourite. D wears his dinosaur costume and his frog galoshes and runs up to me and says, "Miss Sarah! Miss Sarah! I'm a DINOSAUR!" Or, on a gorgeous February day, "Miss Sarah! God made it SNOW for my birthday!" He's four. And adorable.

We got another dog. Yeah, so my blog title/URL is officially incorrect. We basically just inherited my parent's dog, a 10 year old Basset with a freaking TON of attitude. Let's see....house with another dog and 2 active people who can walk and cuddle her little heart out, or a condo in the desert where it's too hot to go outside half of the year? Charlotte gets hot, but it doesn't get THAT hot! So while the rest of the family moves to Dubai, Grace moved to Charlotte.

We've been living together for over 6 months. How weird is that? It's been so wonderful. I started this blog thinking that it was going to be a Challenge (note the capital "C"). "The first year is the hardest," I thought, "So I'll keep a record and maybe make my 4 readers laugh while we figure things out." Only it turns out it's been a cake walk. Okay, we're not GREAT at figuring out chores. And I'm cranky when I'm sick, and he talks to his mom a lot more than I thought he did. But it's been so wonderful, that even when we are frustrated I'm SO thankful that we are living the life we're living. I sit around and think, "How lucky am I? Can I get happier?" and then I wake up and get ready for work and kiss him goodbye and am just a little bit happier than I was the day before.

But that kind of happiness doesn't make funny blog posts. And I'm horrible at writing serious posts. (Confession: I think they're kind of boring.) And so I haven't written anything. Oops. Sorry!

I'll try to share some of the baking/building/decorating/finally moving into our own place and not live in my parents' house anymore (okay, not yet...but soon!) hilarity. There are funny moments, I swear! I laugh so much more now. And yes, the 2 of you that know me in real life probably don't think that's possible. But I do! I swear!

So that's life. I hope everybody's as insanely happy as I am. It's a pretty cool life when you're this happy.