"Reunited and it feels so good..."

Go ahead, try to get the tune out of your head!
At any rate, you are so nice to come home, my fun baby blog.
Change is definitely resistible, and I just can't bring myself to update the content on the side of this blog - the photos, our address!, remarks, etc. Every time I log in and see my sweet baby in his kimono and our tiny Mouse House my heart squeezes into a knot and bursts through my chest in a fit of loneliness. The days were sometimes long and the journey sometimes difficult, but Eric and I miss living in Japan tremendously and mention it nearly every day. Our friends, the food and culture, the amazing ease of living with less - tough to leave behind. That is not to say that we are not overwhelmingly happy and in a great place at home here in Austin, literally and figuratively; but the longing for Japan-living will likely tug at us for a long long time.
So let's compromise, a little change at a time. After all, we can't have OUR blog and not add Harper to the sidebar! Oh the virtual-humanity!
(See! I told you I would post again, and look, I have!)

"Just where the hell have you been, Young Lady?!"

Where have I been? Well add a second child to the mix and bye-bye blog! However, the blood is slowly returning to my brain and the sleep is ever-so-slightly increasing, not to mention the overwhelming cuteness quotient that is exponentially expanding with these two curtain-climbers - so I will answer the call of ye olde blogge yet again and try to update more often. Prepare yourselves, this could get messy (much like the process of feeding baby food to the ever-enthusiastic Harper-kun!).