Excuses, excuses
Oh blogosphere, how I’ve missed you so.
A few weeks ago we were leaving for a Disney vacation, and then I sort of dropped off the face of the Internet. I know. I’m sorry. It’s been crazy crazier than usual. I will update properly on our vacation, pictures and all, but first here are the obligatory explanations for my prolonged absence.
One new-to-us experience we had on this vacation was ‘having a child get sick in Disney World.’ I don’t really want to repeat that one. I don’t know exactly how it happened, but long story short, Lilly was infected with e coli. She (and I) spent the second half of the vacation pretty much tied to the resort room, and she was hospitalized the week we got home. Not fun. 
And then came Easter. And after she was released, my parents went away for a few days, which left me and my unruly brood in charge of our website (total plug for Garden Party Teas). I love, love, LOVE working with the site, but it’s not easy to do with the amount of ‘help’ I get from my 2 & 3 year old daughters. Anyway, we’ve been very busy lately – it’s Tea Party season, don’t you know? I’m grateful for our customers, but it does keep us on our toes!
After all of that died down, I came back to blog. I had very good intentions. Unfortunately, though, a spammer sidetracked me. I had to weed through and delete literally thousands of spam comments. When I finally got that tedious task off of my plate, I checked my email, only to discover that every single comment also generated an email notificaion, so yet again I had to weed through them all. UGH! It was such a long, annoying process that by the time I finished (several days later), I had no desire to blog!
Then we had a crazy soccer week (I’m the coach of my daughters’ rockin’ U-6 team), busy school week (I volunteer there on a regular basis – so fun!), yada, yada, yada. And now my poor Mom has hurt her back and is unable to do much of anything but lie in pain. When it rains it pours I suppose!
So there you have it, the list of excuses reasons why I was unable to join the land of the living for a while. But never fear, I’m back baby, with lots to talk about, lots to show you, and a few really awesome giveaways in the works! Woo-hoo!
Tags: Disney, giveaway, soccer
This and That | Heather April 27, 2009
Facebook comments:
By Liz, April 28, 2009 @ 8:54 am
The part that struck me the most about your struggle is that your daughter got sick at Disney World. I feel for you there. Poor little thing! So sorry to hear that. The worst that happened to me as a child was getting chicken pox right before we went to WDW. Had to hang out in a hotel a day or so before I scabbed over. Apparently, we got some strange looks from folks at the park because I may have looked a sight.
Hope she’s feeling better now.
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By Allison @ Slice of Heaven, April 28, 2009 @ 10:37 am
Wow…poor thing getting sick at WDW…that can’t be fun. Glad she is feeling better.
I can’t wait to see your pics of the trip. Not sure if you saw my trip reports on my blog. I think I had about 6 or 7 posts. I did a day by day report!
Do you still have your Ebay/embroidery business? I was thinking of ordering my daughter some summer stuff! Could you email me the link as I can’t find it on your sidebar anymore.
Hope you have a great week.
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By Darcie - Such The Spot, April 29, 2009 @ 12:18 pm
Missed you.
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By Amanda, April 30, 2009 @ 8:39 am
I am SO sorry to hear about Lilly! Poor girl; I am so glad to hear she is better now!
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By Jo Y, May 3, 2009 @ 10:56 am
Poor Lilly and poor you with how busy you’ve been and having to deal with a spammer too
Glad you’re back though!
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