taking the plunge into blogdom

i have procrastinated enough and finally started up the blog i have been threatening of.  i cannot guarantee it will be as witty and well written as others {yes, i am talking about you DH} but i will give it the old college try - and by that i mean half-assed and riddled with errors due to laziness. 

let's immediately get over the fact that i write strictly in lowercase letters and frequently omit proper punctuation, although i do know it.  you will also note that i misuse commas or leave them out entirely when needed.   please suppress the urge to point out my mistakes.

but back to the point of the blog - the hubby and i are packing up the family and going to europe for almost 3 months.  we are saying goodbye to the rest of our midwestern winter (february and march are very bleak here and april is nothing but a thawing mess) and heading for the milder climate of amsterdam.  but alas, the trip is not for pleasure but for business.  not mine of course because who would send me to stay at home with my children in a foreign country?  i could have titled this blog 'husband to see wife and family on weekends - european edition!'.  

ohh, that segues nicely into talking about the actual blog title.  you might ask 'what the hell does the blog title mean?'.   well, part of my procrastination in making this blog was my inability to come up with a clever name.  i figured our airport codes worked as well as any other.  the irony is that we are not actually flying out of madison (MSN) airport but scooting down to o'hare (ORD) instead.  more of that can be found in the upcoming 'tedious minutiae'  section of the blog.