Chicken or the egg; plus artwork by Mia

I always feel bad when I neglect this blog - I love hanging out with my daughters and often think of things to post, but then I get caught up in whining about the Oscars or celebrating Kim Bauer's return to 24 at my other blog and I forget. Mia and Norah don't do a whole lot, after all, and I don't like bemoaning Mia's fate too often, lest I come off as whining. We're luckier than a lot of parents, I know. This leads to a chicken-or-the-egg situation: very few people read this blog. So I wonder: do I not post because nobody's reading, or is nobody reading because I don't post that often? Oh, it's a conundrum!

I don't really care if people aren't reading, by the way. This blog is basically for people who know us who don't live near us or don't call us on the phone all the time (like my mom) and want to know how Mia and now Norah are doing. Many of my friends have not even met our daughters because they live too far away and we don't travel with the kids (which would be laughable). I don't expect a lot of traffic, but I feel bad because the people who do come here probably don't come back very often. I seem to have a lot of friends who don't spend much time on the Internet or don't realize that I update here, and they only come here when I post pictures. That's perfectly fine, but with our handy-dandy digital camera, I can post pictures a lot more often, so all those people who want to see the kids should come here more than once a month.


I'll stop whining. Like I said, I'm very sorry I don't post more often. The kids are fine, and I'll have a real update tomorrow, with a bunch o' photographs. For now, I thought I'd post some artwork that Mia did in school. Sorry it's on its side - the paper was too big to scan horizontally. She's quite the artist, ain't she? You may scoff at her talents, but big-time artists can fetch up to 10 million dollars for something that looks not terribly unlike this.

Thanks for your support, everyone, and I promise to be better about updating. Unless, you know, nobody cares. In which case I'll still update, damn it!