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Wooo-Hoooo! I'm back and we're married! Here is my Beloved and I in the hallway of our hotel, drunk on Italian champagne after our garden reception.

Gosh, it feels so effing great to put fingers to keyboard and draft a post that I'll actually publish! I have felt as if I've been in the midst of a whirling, swirling, crazed vortex of non-stop activity.

There is nothing like deciding to 1) remodel your home, 2) plan an engagement/wedding party, 3) plan a wedding in Italy, 4) a honeymoon in Spain, 5) return more to more remodeling, 6) work responsiblities, 7) neverending home tasks, 8) family drama, and 9) money wrangling to put a cramp in my blogging abilities!!!

And that's just counting the stuff I can remember off the top of my head. It has been an incredible two months since we've been back, for the first time on U.S. soil, as a married couple. I want to blog and post so much about the crazy beautiful fun and frantic madness of our summer. I will over the next couple of weeks.

But first, I want to apologize to my fellow Blogistani citizens for having dropped off the face of Blogearth. I HAVE MISSED YOU ALL. I can't believe how much I've missed all of you and your blogs. In the midst of this vortex, something had to give, and unfortunately, it had to be blogging. Sometimes it takes significant time to publish a post, and time has been very, very precious these past few weeks.

I've changed the look of my blog and the title to reach me. For many reasons, I felt this was a great time for me to start over. After all, I've now started a new chapter in my life as a married woman! I'm starting to get used to saying that now!

I love the color red. Always have. So, my blog is red. It is also the color of love. Luuuuuurve!!! Like the love for my Belov-Ed companion for life. Like the love for my precious, precious sweet golden babies. Like the love for my tremendous friends.

L-O-V-E!!!

I have been stressed and it was showing since we got back from our wedding and honeymoon. With so much going on, I felt pulled in a million different directions, to the point that I very often felt transparent. As we humans tend to do, we take it out on the ones we love. I released much of my fatigue with work, the remodel, and our maniacal family issues, on my Belov-Ed. At times I didn't recognize the cranky and wild-eyed bitch staring back at me in the mirror!

But, in the past week or so, life has slowly been returning to normal. The remodel is done in large part. We will have some "touch-up" work and landscaping that needs to be done, but nothing that requires scheduled energy. Work has been slowing down some as well. Our office was an insane asylum for a few weeks. Our families have started to fade in their attacks a bit.

We got off the airplane from Spain on a Saturday night. We slept into the next morning, and then that very first afternoon back from our honeymoon we picked up our paintbrushes and continued from where we left off. Since then it has been NON-FUCKING-STOP. Seriously.

Thank God things have begun to return to normal!!! We actually moved into our new master bedroom 2 nights ago. It felt so freaking good to sleep in a room NOT piled up high with boxes and pets.

So, here are a couple of more photos. I'm going to check and see what Laura has been up to since her move to one of my favorite cities...Seattle!!! Jet Blue has a sale on tickets right now from San Diego to Seattle....$99 one way!!! I'm SOOOO there Laura!

Love to you all in Blogistan!