Hello, Maybe I Am Coming Back

For.... reasons.  (I may continue to complain, privately, elsewhere; but...)

Here is a series of updates:

• I taught bio again
• I got sick again
• I got carried out of work on a stretcher and it was not awesome
• I met my out of pocket maximum after four months again
• I got better mostly
• Not keeping kosher any more has improved my life greatly, because dinner is 75% easier
• I kind-of-accidentally adopted five students from Mountain U (where I teach), which, if you know where it really is, is pretty hilarious, and yes, they all call me ma'am
• We feed them dinner every Sunday now
• They ate eight pounds of chicken one Sunday - four of them
• I finished my house renovation and will eventually post a picture once I hang the hat racks
• Sweetpea turned three
• We had 31 people over for her party/brunch/excuse to invite people over
• It was a surprisingly large amount of fun
• I bought enough wire shelving to organize all our tools
• I need the students to come over and move furniture (before I feed them dinner) some weekend
• The spouse got a very large grant
• We are both probably-almost-certainly going to Australia this summer because his grant has travel funds and because I *can* so why not
• The sabbatical plan is currently to spend a summer (as in 3 months) in Scandinavia, because why not
• This will be in three more years
• I am still working on an IT certificate thing in the hopes that I can escape my job, one day, or at least trade it in for another job
• Tatoe is learning to READ
• Sweetpea is going to daycare 4 days (until 3:30) a week and I get Fridays alllll to myself (between 8:50 and 3:30 at least)
• This is delightful and I feel only 10% guilty
• A friend is expecting twins in the spring so I will be able to hold all the babies I want to, probably
• Not having a baby in the house any more is completely amazing and I will never miss all the incredibly hard, wearing, impossible parts, never as long as I live.