So...what's the hold up?
Just start where you are. Don't try to go back to the day you abandoned the blogging world. No need to mention details about Isac's first swimming lessons or Haddy's debut as a tightrope walker in her kindergarten play. You couldn't possibly recap every moment; Sophia learning how to skip or Spencer's crazy dances in oversized rainboots are only one in one hundred memories worth mentioning.
Begin this way: Today, we ate pancakes and eggs for dinner. Seth Hochstrasser and Katie Klingler joined our dinner breakfast party after helping my kids distribute dominoes, race tracks, Barbies, swimsuits, towels, dress-up shoes, Polly Pockets, baseballs, and mitts throughout the house. If it weren't for the fact that much of the day was spent preparing to audition for a play, taking the kids to eat lunch at Porter Park and play baseball at Smith Park, I might have the energy to enforce a clean up. I guess there's always tomorrow...
Who knows? Maybe the next time you write, you'll know how to begin. And maybe you'll know how to explain why your children now look like this:
