Excuse me while I get the dust off my keyboard. Been a while, huh?

Rather than bore you with why it's been so long (work, uni, novel, family stuff, etc) instead I want to share with you two awesome things that happened today.

Firstly, I got home from work (a new job! Yes, another one! Hooray!) to find a package from Mamamia.

Yes, the same Mamamia which I read everyday, anaylse, love, swear by. You know, Mia Freedman's website.

You see, I wasn't *totally* shocked that I had a package from them, because: last week on Friday I got an email from Nat saying that they had seen my post on Mia's Family Life Forum and they wanted to send me something to say thanks for my kind words.

I was about to go into an ALEA meeting at the time, and I almost stopped breathing and ...