I totally understand about life "happening"...been going thru lots of that myself and just now trying to get back into the swing of making time to scrapbook. Just wanted you to know that you have been missed!
Can't help you on the digi end...I do love the look of digital scrapbooking but would love to be able to design my own papers and embelishments and haven't figured out how to do that yet plus I have tooooooo much money tied up in my traditional stuff so need to used that up before I look into digi.