I'm giving up blogs for Lent...

... and devoting that extra time to blogging myself. Every time I read one I realize how much I actually want to write one, and really, I have no excuses to not join the Mommyblogger Crusades. I stay at home with my twenty-months-tomorrow daughter, and she both naps and enjoys watching an inordinate amount of freight train enthusiast videos on YouTube.

This blog is going to be private for a while, at least until I can prove to myself that I'll keep it up. It is also intended to document the life before our second baby and our preparations for him/her, but at this moment, I'm not pregnant and don't want to make our trying-to-conceive journey public fodder... at least not yet. This is the first month that we are actually going to try to get pregnant... the last few were let's-see-what-happens and apparently, we need to step it up a notch.

But in the meantime, here we are on a gray March day. The Stig is upstairs fussing toward napdom, I am feeling discombobulated as I recover from a really bad cold, and the house, as usual, is too cluttered to my liking. Here is my fortunate, messy life, and I invite you (eventually) to come along for the ride.