A Sabbatical of Sorts

I usually try to write every day of my life. I enjoy writing and TV in China bites. Those of you who follow my blog know that it is the outlet of my writing only about once a week. You may also have noticed that there was only one post in 2 months. The truth is that I wrote nothing in the entire month of January. It's not just that I didn't write my blog in January - I didn't write anything in January. At the time I thought I might be having a month long writer's block, but you must also know that for a month of my life I didn't work (I took 10 days off when Beckett was born and then everyone at the orphanage went back to their hometowns for Chinese New Year), I didn't travel, I didn't write, I didn't study (I could have gotten well ahead in lesson preparations for after the New Year), I didn’t exercise.
This is not normally my style. Not only have I never really had that much time off in my professional career, but I always dreamed that if I ever were to get that much time off I would... Here was my opportunity, and for a month I realized that there was nothing more important to do in the whole world than to hold my baby, serve my wife, and play with my 2 older boys - for a month - and I loved it!