Absence - noun. ab-sence, period of being away: failure to attend or appear when expected.

I still love you. I'm sorry I've ignored you. I believe I'm back. I'll catch you up on my two months of me being AWOL:

-I'm married
-I'm pregnant
-I haven't been alone in my house with my husband since either of those two things happened.

That's about it.

Let's all forget about me ignoring you and never speak of it again.

My garden is being fruitful, no pun intended, it's more like veggieful, since I've got banana peppers coming out of my rear. I took it upon myself to pickle my banana peppers since I've never done it and I'm not going to eat them raw. Caleb did a great job of documenting my progress, and this is how it went.
Choppy chop.
Stuff.
Vinegar and water and salt.
Boil the cans for a while, set them on the cupboard and 'pop' the little lids just seal themselves. I felt a weird sense of accomplishment, in a housewife kind of way. Look how frugal and womanly I am, I canned something. I am planning on pickling a friend's jalapeno's sometime this week.