Please welcome to the stage....

(Here is where you are supposed to start applauding)

Thank you, thank you. You are so kind! I'm Jenny and I'm married to Katie's oldest brother, Zach, meaning she has to like me, not by choice, but by family duty. I am the proud caretaker of her nephew a.k.a. Little Howell...

I look like this...

and if you enlarge this picture you will notice that I have CoverGirl all-day lip color on my teeth. I don't like carrots, and that's pretty much all you need to know.

Now let's get down to business. First of all, I don't use fancy words like "fortnight" in my posts. That would be superfluous and ostentatious verbage. I will however ask the question all of you have been asking:

(Sing it with me Rockapella style)

"Where in the World was...Katie?"

Well Heart Gone Walking-ers or whatever it is that we call ourselves, there was a rare sighting in a Zionsville area park on Mother's Day. Here is a glimpse of the rare creature...

Shhhhhhhhh! We don't want to scare her away from Blogger.

I have the privilege of being a member of her family, which means that I also get to love on this little one, who was also present at family Mother's Day picnic.

By the end of the afternoon, Madeline smelled like strawberries and dirt, which I think if you could bottle that scent, moms everywhere would snatch it up. It really is the sweetest smell on the planet, and it is how all little girls should smell in my opinion.

I'm not really posting for Katie to be nice. I am OCD a Type A personality and require stability in my life. "Heart Gone Walking" sat at the bottom of my chronologically updated blog list for four score and seven years a "fortnight." Truth be told, my heart almost "walked out" on Katie.

This is the equivalent of me writing an angry letter to her and throwing it a away. I love you, Katie, and I forgive you :-)

After all, you are raising such an adorable little niece for me. Okay, I can't resist! Here's one more...

(You have reached the end of a rather pointless post that was really meant to show you how cute Madeline is.)