How I've Been

I'm good, yep.  Thanks for asking.
Better than I was the last time I posted in October.
Because after that, I got so crazy and sleep-deprived by single-parenting that I had to check into a mental health clinic and I've been convalescing there until now.
Or.  I pined away for J so terribly, that I succumbed to my broken heart and leaped from a bridge into icy water and have spent the last three months in a full-body cast.
Or.  The children finally ran wild and went all Lord of The Flies on me and I just got out of the hallway closet where I've been bound with sequined hair ribbons and living on cheerios slipped under the door.
Or. I threatened to take out the entire US military if they changed the dates for J's return trip one more time, and they could see I was dang serious and I've been in the brig.
Or I got really tired of missing J and didn't know how to talk about anything else, and then he came home and I was too happy to talk about anything else than that, and then there was SO much to talk about I didn't know where to start.  
Those are all perfectly likely and you may take your pick. 
But in any case, he did come back.  Little One turned four. Little Miss became a real walking, talking, hilarious person. There were holidays and tragedies and mudfights and quite a lot of photographs. 
I might get some up here just to dispel any rumors about my whereabouts. 
In the meantime, though, being so far away from friends and family while J was missing did teach me the value of any thread at all that can keep me connected to people out there.  And I miss being able to look something up on here in order to cheat at bets with J when we can't quite remember where we were last Thanksgiving.  So I think I'll give this thing another go, and see if anyone out there still wants to hold the other end of the thread. 
So the short of the long story is that we are all fine! And, I miss you.