I can’t believe its now 2009!
We had a pretty nice day today – this morning I did a ton of accounting.  When you own your own business you realize that for tax reasons you want to make all upcoming purchases and pay bills and such before the end of the year.  So, this morning was [...]

We’ve gotten back home from our trip to Chattanooga.  It was a wonderful trip!  The kids did soooo well on the way down, and they did pretty well on the way back.  Its about a six hour drive, but they soldiered through it very well.  On the way back Ellie was running a bit of [...]

Christmas is such a magical time… Presents under the tree from Santa, and even a special letter from Santa to the kids:

And another Christmas miracle – no grumpy kids first thing in the morning!

Nothing in the world can top homemade cinnamon rolls and mimosas for breakfast on Christmas morning – seriously!

The kids loved all their [...]

We had an absolutely wonderful, magical, amazing Christmas!  Even though Ellie had an allergic reaction to orange juice and we had a very small fire (not in the fireplace) tonight.
Ellie’s had some benedryl and is sleeping and her hives are almost gone, the fire was doused by me and David and we’re re-aranging our kitchen.  [...]

So, I’m waiting on ONE LAST present to arrive by FedEx.  It is supposed to arrive before 7pm tonight, but we’re leaving at 3:45 to go over to my parents’ house.  The package has a present for my mom and David’s mom – I hope it arrives before we leave tonight!  (I do have another [...]

This afternoon the kids and I baked cookies.  Growing up, we didn’t do the big baking cookies tradition around Christmas, but I thought it might be fun to do with the kids.  It went well, we made gingerbread cookies and chocolate candy-cane cookies, both kinds turned out yummy!  But, the real highlight of the evening [...]

So, I’m already thinking about resolutions for the upcoming year.  Carina gave me the coolest Christmas present – a week-by-week guide for the year to organizing your life.  I’m so excited to go through it this year!  That will be one of my resolutions, for sure.
I’m sure I’ll stick with my 1500 exercise minutes/month goal, [...]