Well, this is embarrassing...can anyone else relate to that awkward silence that sometimes takes place in conversations? What do you say to fill the emptiness? Or when a friendship experiences a break of communication and it's just been too long...what do you say to start the communication again? What do you say for the long absence that took place? I don't know what to say except sorry. It's been WAY too long. I should have written a long time ago. We've been back from the US for a month now. Life has been super, super busy. I've been playing catch up for a while now ... after we got back from the States (on a Thursday), that following Monday Zoey and I flew to Germany and were there for a week. The weekend after we got back, we had a church retreat that lasted until Monday. So this is the first week that we are actually home the whole week! The next trip will be a week to Germany to visit with my family again and my sister-in-law and her girls that w