(Let’s pretend that 3 months haven’t passed us by - ‘kay?  I’ll spend the next few days working up to present day in the mean time…welcome to July/August.)

After my lovely get-away in NYC, (which will, with the benefit of hindsight, be a very significant part of my summer)  we spent the rest of the summer traveling to KY, going to a wedding (which you have already heard about and which will, again with the benefit of hindsight become a very signficant weekend) and having visitors.

The having visitors is what lead to my blogging demise.  We had back to back fun times at Chez Bookish for about a month and a half.  It was a blast.  I loved it.  This is what it looks like in bullet point summary.

• July 12th - Kristine, Arthur, and N arrive!  Oh, how happy we were to see them.  We took a lot of walks, ate at Wegmans, and played at the park.

• July 15th - K, A, and N leave.  And we are sad.

• July 16th - Juli and Will arrive and we are happy!!!  We have a picnic with all of our friends from growing up and their parents.  (Juli and I are BFFs since 7th grade, and we went to college together). William gets lots of loving.  This is the best part about being back “home” is that our past meets our present.

• July 18th - The rest of the college girls arrive.  Part of our annual reunion, this year in my home town!

• July 20th - The girls leave and we are sad.  We even show some attitude.  We are good at this.

• July 23rd - Rob and I celebrate our 4th Anniversary.  Ahhhhh.  (this is us in Las Vegas, October 2006)

• July 24th - Maryse, Kellee and WB arrive and we are happy!  (okay I have zero pictures from this weekend - so image them.  Maryse - send me some - pretty please!!!!).
• Hot on thier heels Alan, Jess, and their two kids arrive on a stop over from BOS to Detroit, they stay for one night and we are sad when they leave.

• July 25th - Melanie Arrives! Jackie Arrives (please note Jackie’s new url)!  We miss Elisa and Stitchy but we carry on.  Here are some kid pics that Maryse took.

• July 27th - The girls leave and we are sad (sense a theme here?).

We have a bit of a break here as we spend the week without people, without cleaning, and sleeping.  All of this activity was threaded with Sophia boycotting sleep (as she has done for much of her life).  I realize how much I miss having friends close, how much I miss my life in Boston and how little time I have to myself.  Rob is still unemployed and I worry about all of that plus the normal weight of the world.  Sophia keeps me going and she makes me laugh with her sillyness.

•  August 2nd - We celebrate my Dad’s 60th Birthday (a month early) with a huge family reunion.

• August 30th - We head to the NY State Fair.  Whew - what a good time.

And so we end August - and summer ends.  (Not really but you get the drift).  On to September / October tomorrow.