Florida

Well hello. Sorry about my absence. I'm here to wish you a belated happy New Year.

So, happy New Year!

I would have stopped in to send best wishes for 2009 sooner, but I've been a bit busy lately. You see, I just returned from about 5 days in lovely Naples, Florida, where I was visiting (Not So) Conservative Grandmom and Conservative Granddad with—you guessed it—Conservative Family.

What have I been so busy doing that I didn't have time for you, dear reader?

Well, I was eating seafood. (Including exactly one oyster, which is as many as I can stomach.)

Sleeping in.

Getting my very first professionally done pedicure (really!) thanks to (Not So) Conservative Grandmom's generosity. (No, those are not a random little girl's feet. They're mine.)


Playing Apples to Apples and Scattegories by the pool.

Shopping.

Laying on the beach, staring at the ocean (and the interesting characters walking by).


Celebrating Conservative Boy's 26th birthday (it's on Jan. 1, in case you were wondering).

Reading. A lot.

Celebrating New Year's Eve.

Hunting for seashells. (Kid Sister found these ... aren't they cool?)


Now you see why I didn't manage to post at all while I was in Florida. I was busy.