Where to Begin

In case anyone was wondering, I did not just fall off the face of the earth back in May.  (I think that is when my last blog post was)  Rather, the big event that put my writing on hold was the return of my wife to work after finishing her maternity leave.  While getting my wife and one child out of the house manageable with including a half hour of writing in the morning, I quickly found out that getting my wife and 2 children out of the house (including writing) wasn't going to happen right away.  And as most of you might know, once you stop doing something that has become a habit for a while, the longer you wait to re-start that habit, the harder it is to do so.  Yet here I am, hoping to re-start my morning writing.  While I will strive to make it an everyday occurrence, I can't guarantee anything and will be more than satisfied if I can sit down and actually write 3 days a week.  In any case, while my wife going back to work may have been the driving factor with me moving away from writing for a bit, there was a whole confluence of events that managed to keep me away for the whole summer.  

A brief overview of my life since May will now commence.  After my wife went back to work, she stumbled upon this awesome house that had just recently gone on the market.  I looked at it, was impressed, and we started the ball rolling with how we could buy it.  The kicker was, we couldn't sell our old house due to the still depressed market.  So, we somehow made it happen where we held on to the old house deciding that we would rent it out while also buying the new one.  Having not bought a house since before the market crashed back in 2008, I was completely unaware as to how ridiculous getting a mortgage has become.  They need to know everything about everything.  It wouldn't put it past the mortgage company to request a DNA swab to verify that it was in fact me requesting a mortgage.   Yet, it all went through somehow and we moved into the new house this past labor day.  So when I say this summer has been a whirl wind, I am not joking.  I have no idea where the time went, can't believe its October already, and am still flying by the seat of my pants.  The most important part in all of this is that everyone is happy and healthy.  For now, I must run and get the house ready to roll, but I am back, and hope to stay back now.