My family and I send our deepest apologies!  We all have been doing one thing or another and have neglected to inform the world about it!  Anyway, I am now a mature, sophisticated, junior in high school. I am loving the routine, but not too much the 5:00 wake up call and the load of homework that comes with it.  Elinor is a 1st grader at hard hat zone, for her school is under MAJOR construction.  We all are happy to get back into the swing of things.