I have always prided myself on being a "go with the flow" person. Nothing ever caught me off-guard. I could drop whatever I was doing and be the most spontaneous person in the world. I love that person...and I miss her...and I wish I had taught her just a bit more about prioritizing and planning, list making, etc. You get the picture...
I obviously haven't blogged since Halloween! Not that our lives aren't filled with blogworthy happenings, but rather I just can't seem to find time to blog them! There are a billion other things that seem to take precedence...so sorry.
In the name of catching up, Thanksgiving was spent at a farm with friends that come from a family with 13 children...gorgeous weather, tons of people, games late into the evening, needless to say...we loved it!
I got an early Christmas present in the form of being rear-ended by a good 'ole boy in a jacked up pick-up truck...oh wait...that wasn't a gift...I got a new back door on my car and still have no A/C! Sorry, I got confused!
Christmas was as busy as everyone else's. I played the shelf elf in Madelyn's classroom, created the North Pole scene for Santa's visit to the church Christmas Party, made homemade gifts and treats for anyone and everyone local, and somewhere in the midst of all of this, we cleaned house and got ready for Nana's annual visit...which was once again, wonderful and as always too short...so she extended her trip by two days, and we reveled in having her around a bit longer.
We rang in the new year quietly, but it seems that that was just a mask for the craziness that has ensued ever since. We are doing well, getting ready for Madelyn's baptism next month, and prepping for the flight out west for that very event. I flew to Virginia with Parrish for a few days in January, leaving all three kids at home with friends who stayed here at the house...it was a much-needed get away, and we got to visit Michigan friends and even my sister Cheryl and her husband Gavin in DC for a quick dinner one night! February has brought Valentine parties, T-ball sign-ups, Dave Ramsey classes, and the usual YW craziness...I really have got to start making lists...I cannot continue to "fly by the seat of my pants" because they keep catching fire! Here are a few pics to play catch up...some day I really will...or maybe I won't...who knows!?
