Another year gone...

So it has been awhile...

What's happened over the past year and a half:

• Lost that babysitter I mentioned in my previous post - sent me an email over the weekend that she wasn't coming back to her home and couldn't watch my son - family issues that sounded scary. OK - and I left my son over there? Yikes.
  
• Went through a series of phone interviews at a major company, then one on-site the day after my son got sick and threw-up all over me. Didn't get the job, but learned a lot in the process. (I sent in my resume saying I wanted part-time. Wonder whether that had an effect, but who ever knows?)
  
• Found a part-time position working from home for a marketing research company (on craigslist), found out I was pregnant with baby #2, and found a local in-home daycare to watch my son all in the same week (after calling, visiting and interviewing several options). Guess those prayers worked. Thank you, God!
• Went on a trip with 6 adults and one toddler involving 600+ miles of driving, only 17 trips to REI, visiting 3 national parks (Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Zion), camping on the Pacific Coast and in the parks (in the snow at Grand Canyon, in a wind-storm that trashed our tent in Death Valley), and changing disgusting diapers all along the way since we found the best way to keep the baby happy was to provide food - oranges and broccoli particular favorites.
• Visited family and friends back home in August and September. Tried to work while I was home. Big mistake. Had fun, but more drama with family. My older sister was moving in with my parents with her three kids while her husband went to Korea for a year (military). We were visiting and my younger sister and her daughter came as well and it was her husband's last week at home (he was supposed to already be gone, so I was going to be helpful, keeping her company, giving her something to look forward to after her husband left, however, my family was in the way instead). Sad. Messy. Things were eventually resolved before we headed back West.
  
• My grandma visited at the age of 86. Never been out here before. We traveled down the coast, saw the Golden Gate, took a tour of Alcatraz with a former prison guard, took her to Big Basin, and hung out in the sun in my backyard. I was 7 months pregnant, so I wasn't moving too fast for most of her visit.
• Now I have two little boys. I'm thinking of starting a blog about dealing with the issues of having two children. I know it is nothing new and look how great I am at updating my blog, but perhaps people would find it useful...
• I'm still working - have a nanny now that comes to watch the boys while I work from home. That's about it.

What have you been up to this past year?