The fact that I’ve gone dark here should not be interpreted in any ominous way. It just turns out the time/energy necessary for chronicling this journey is spent on the kids (leading me to conclude, of course, than any moms who blog every day multiple times a day are terrible mothers). That part inside the parenthesis is a joke, of course. More or less.

Amy lands in less than five hours. We’re all way beyond ready to have her home.