Please forgive the crappy phone pic.

Erin came down for a very quick but action-packed visit today. As soon as she got here, we dragged her to Wahoo’s for fish tacos, then to the pottery studio to finish up painting the piece she started way back in July. This evening we went to the zoo and wandered around for a couple of hours, stopping on the way home at Denny’s for a late dinner of breakfast. Tomorrow we might do the traditional doughnuts-on-Snail-Mountain breakfast before she has to drive back up to school to get some work done. I took a ton of photos today but am too tired to upload them now. And I still need to write about our fun trip to Sea World the other day, and a bunch of other stuff that might get swept under the rug because soon Annalie and I will be flying east to visit family and friends from North Carolina to Maryland and then I’ll want to write about all THAT…

I call it the Bloggers’ Paradox: If life would just stop being so full and interesting I’d have more time to write about it…but then I wouldn’t have much to write about.

Things will settle down soon. I hope. I miss writing about our days, about what I’m baking and painting and thinking, about what hilarious things Annalie is saying.

But I guess life tends to get busier when one of your closest friends is only a two-hour drive away for a limited time. And I wouldn’t have changed that, or missed one visit. I’m so thankful that Erin was able to meet some of my other friends and see Troy before he left, that she got to spend time with my mom and do yoga with Annalie in the park and paint pottery with me. Thanks for making your life crazier just to hang out with us, dude! (Tenga las llaves…HAVE THEM!)