Returned

So it has been about a year since I posted anything!!!  That's amazing.  I guess I've been a little busy this past year, having a new baby and all.  So, in the next posts, I will just be trying to recount some of my memories from the past year.  They probably won't be sequential, because I can't remember more than two things at a time anymore.  Sorry for the sabbatical:)

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