{"id":5629,"date":"2006-09-25T08:29:45","date_gmt":"2006-09-25T08:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/back-in-business-1.html"},"modified":"2006-09-25T08:29:45","modified_gmt":"2006-09-25T08:29:45","slug":"back-in-business-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/viamedia\/2006\/09\/back-in-business-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Back in business"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m back – have been since Sunday morning, but then headed off immediately to Indianapolis to accompany everyone else on an outing<\/a> that was originally conceived so that everyone could get out of the house and let Mom sleep (yes that was the only <\/em>motivation…), but since Mom had slept on the plane Saturday night as well as in O’Hare, she was feeling pretty good when she got home, missed everyone, and so just went along anyway.<\/p>\n

Mom did <\/em>sleep well last night though…<\/p>\n

So…comments are open, blogging will be happening – not in any way that’s particularly reflective of the daily news, though. I’ll just blog my weekend, what hits me from the email box, etc. This is also the first day the baby’s been back at the sitter for two weeks, so this is the point at which Things Get Serious in terms of other writing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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