• We know we are hideously behind in posting.  There’s stuff going on, it’s just not making it here because of, well, life.  (Hint: It’s shingling.  We are still shingling.)
  • We know that you are really sick of shingling posts, which is why we aren’t doing much posting.  (Hint: That’s not really the reason.  Cherie’s laziness is really the reason.)
  • We know that all the picture links prior to our move to WordPress in December 2008 are broken.  This happened because when posts were brought over from Typepad, the pictures didn’t import.  That happened because Cherie didn’t read the fine print.  (Hint: you should be SHOCKED at that.)
  • We know that we need to reimport all the pictures, and we will, except that the computer that has all the pictures on it is off at the computer hospital.  We have back-ups, but the thought of digging through all the photo CDs to find the right ones is, um, daunting. (Hint: It’s possible we can’t even remember where the back-up CDs are.)
  • We know that we will feel extremely accomplished once we reimport all the pictures, because our archives will be useful again.  Especially those early archives when we posted more than once every two months and, in fact, posted as often as twice a week.  (Hint: We are horrified to learn both that we were once that motivated and that our past motivation means we have hundreds of photos to reimport.)
  • We know that this post is really yet another giant pile of excuses but what we can say, blog readers?  We are excusing-making people.  (Hint: We really are.)
  • We know that this excuse-heavy post is really only salvageable with a good picture of Annabel, but we don’t have one of those so here’s one of her eating watermelon on the back deck.  (Hint: We actually think this is a good picture, but then, we are her parents and thus are allowed to think that.)

watermelon

  • We know that we never actually mentioned that we now have a back deck.  (Hint: We didn’t?  Oops.)
  • We know that this format has really overstayed its welcome.  (Hint: Bye.)