it's been a long time...

it's been a really long time.  Too long, in fact. 

The weather has turned cold,

winter break is almost upon us,

and where did the time go?

Things have changed,

yet are still the same.

Molly's birthday is on Monday.

How can my baby be 9 already?

We leave for Florida on Friday

and will spend a week in paradise...

together as a family,

for the first time in 3 years.

I have not been running

nor photographing

I am feeling a little blue

and run down.

A vacation will do a world of good

but then we will come home

and jump feet first back in to life.

Thank God for vacations...

and family.