It has been far too long since I wrote a post! The last two months I have been going through one of those rites of passage for an American – buying my first home. Like most anticipated, positive events in life, it has brought out the worst in me and my husband (well, mostly just me – he’s a bit more calm than I am). For one, I abandoned the blog and my intention to post weekly, but I also have felt a mixture of extreme happiness mixed with extreme irritability which has done