Remember that one time I had a second baby and then had to get rid of my cat and then I left you hanging for four months? Oh, that just happened? My mistake.

My shit has been broke forEVAH, so I finally took Cagey's advice and contacted my hosting company and they fixed me right up. I would have done it sooner, but it turns out grad school is HARD when you have a toddler and a newborn. It's probably for the best I was on a hiatus. The blog would just be one more thing I could find time to do instead of all the other crap I should actually be doing.

In any case, I feel like it would be ridiculous to try to catch you all up on the haps around here, but I'll give you some of the highlights.

• Mimiclaus is a significantly more demanding baby than Alliclaus was. My one piece of advice to people considering children: Have the hard one first.
• Mimiclaus came with me to class starting when she was ten days old. It was awesome. If by awesome you mean I was neither a great student nor a great parent during those hours. But the semester is over and I am thankful that we were able to work it out in the short term.
• I bounced back really quickly healthwise after having Mimiclaus, but my God, the weight. Everyone said it would be harder to lose the baby weight the second time around. I really wanted to hit them in the face for saying it, but they weren't lying. Jerks.
• We're heading back to San Diego in July for Sarah and Josue's wedding, and while I'm stoked to be there for their big day, I'm starting to think I never want to travel ever until my children are, I don't know, in high school? When does it become easy to travel with children?
• We have a Wii!

Surely other things have happened in the four months I've been gone, but I can't really keep track of them. I'm a little sad I haven't done a lot more documenting of Mimiclaus' first months, but I'm sure it would have just been a bunch of worrying and hand-wringing about "Is she getting enough of my attention? Will she feel like her sister had a better deal?" Instead, I've spared you that and am back when I'm finally starting to overcome those fears.

I'm so glad to be back. Newest pictures at flickr.