Laura Hamilton is on assignment this month.

That's what Dan advised that I should say. My, what a negligent journalist I have been! (sorry Mom ;-) No excuses, but I was ultra-busy finishing up my job at Yahoo through the first part of May!, and then I was super-busy catching up on my personal life, errands, house and garden work, all of which were sorely neglected during the Yahoo! crunch. (But our house and garden are now fabulous! Pics coming soon!)

We went to the North Shore of Kauai for 12 days and had a wonderful time (stories coming soon). Then we came back and I immediately started jamming on my new venture, The Portable Baby, and I've been spending all my free time getting that up and running, products ordered, website designed and developed, etc. Whew!

So now I'm trying to slow down a little. I have a lot more to do, but need a bit of downtime. I got waaay too busy. When I don't make a journal entry for over a month, you know things are crazy. But hey, check out the pics from Kauai, check out The Portable Baby website, and you'll see that I haven't just been sitting around eating bonbons. I've got stories to tell, though.

Just one little brag before I go...Julian is diaper-free! He went full-bore on the potty-training while we were in Kauai, starting in the airplane (take me now! hand signals), and was so diligent about it that I just put shorts on him every day and skipped the diaper. He's kept it up ever since. Yeehaw! I'm very impressed. I like to think of the thousands of dirty diapers I'm keeping out of the landfills, it gives me a warm glow. Seriously...that's a HUGE amount of waste prevented. Who says one person can't make a difference?