i’m interrupting this cleveland love-fest to tell you why i’ve been sort of non-bloggy lately. yeah. joe was taking his board exams. i’m pretty sure (i’m checking… i’m checking… yup) that i have never been so anxious, high-strung, and downright nervous in my entire life. i wasn’t sleeping. the babies weren’t sleeping. i couldn’t eat. i ate too much. i had a constant headache. a constant stomach ache. i mean, really, i shouldn’t have been so worried, right? he was just trying to get his license to practice dentistry. no big deal.

it’s a little shocking to think that it’s ending. i  remember pulling into cleveland in our big yellow penske and moving into that apartment on murray hill and thinking, “this is never going to end.” but it is ending. it’s ending. we’re going to have to be grown-ups. funny thing is, i always thought grown-ups had everything figured out. now i know the truth. the difference between being grown-up and not being grown-up is that grown-ups don’t get to sleep in on saturdays.

[i feel like posting an embarrassing picture of joe dancing in the kitchen in his scrubs on the first day of school, but i think he might not like that. just imagine it. it's joe. and he's dancing in the kitchen. the scrubs are blue. and yes, he has pens in his breast pocket.]

postscript: if you’re into getting things for free [i like to pay for things, myself], little birdie secrets is hosting a giveaway of some of my sister sarah’s awesome stuff. and trust me, she makes really awesome stuff.