I'm ba-a-a-ck

after a quick trip to see some dear friends this weekend.

We ate, we laughed, we let the kids have their way. "Their way" included a trip to a mall. Which drained me. Malls drain me. Ugh. Give me a large, quiet bookstore full of old, dusty, used books, with nary a trendy store in sight.

But, it wasn't my weekend. It was theirs.

Now, I'm trying to catch up on life and blogs and such. Will be back tomorrow with something more interesting to say, I hope, than your basic mall-whine.