Well that was kind of a long 'little bit' of hibernation. But I have emerged from the extended weekend in one piece (if not peace).
A little horeseback riding on Sat w/ my daughter (in my eyes). Then a Sunday AM brief gym workout (which daughter accompanied me to but sitch moderately 'came off the tracks', followed by an eve family get together where she gotta pretty uncomfortable being around a bunch of new faces. And to top off what was supposed to be our wrap up weekend day together on Monday I took her to the E.R. as a precaution because she has been complaing of recurring sharp abdominal RH side pains. So we wound up spending all day and part of Mon eve in waiting pattern in a room in E.R. But I was there for her (whether phantom symptoms or not)and felt good about showing her what a "real dad" is like, since she has never had 1.