My 10-Day, Almost-Total Internet Cleanse

So I've been on about a ten-day social media cleanse. I drove home from Chicago two Sundays ago after BlogHer '13 with my sister. I was home just long enough to unpack, repack, pet Kizzy and kiss Beloved before the little angel and I drove up to Iowa last Monday to stay with my parents for four days, just basically hanging out with family, reading, writing and not working.

We took shelter from a raging monsoon in St. Joseph and bought the little angel her first adult-sized pair of cowgirl boo...