Holiday Check in Time

[TessToo]

Ok everyone!

Time to check in. Are you back from holiday vacation yet? How did things go? How are you doing?
Anything special left to do until 2009? Any good new year plans in the works?

It's too quiet here. Someone pop in and say something!

[Crystal]

eh. I'm here. I've got the Christmas is over.. Hannah's birthday is right around the corner blues.. I'll be back soon.

[tarasue]

I'm here! Lily is teething and VERY clingy. Ben has just started a new ADHD med; the other one was causing a bad reaction with his mood stabilizer. So the kids have been especially needy lately.

I'll make more of an effort to post, T. Got to run for now: dh is cooking! (That's a rare and potentially dangerous event!) He is trying out the NuWave infrared oven we got for Christmas from my little brother... just when I thought I had ALL the kitchen stuff that any five households would need, we get something HUGE, lol. Dh says it'll be awesome if it works like it does in the infomercial, which of course I've never seen.

How was your Christmas, Tess?

Crystal, sending s and thinking of you.

--t

[Minnie2]

:hi: I'm here too !! Can we just fast forward to April already ? I am already counting down the days until Joseph's 7th bday in March.

~ Tristen

[hedgehog]

I am here... mostly lurking or hiding under a rock. January is almost around the corner and grateful that the holidays are over for most part. Xmas was good. We stayed up way too late to wrap the presents (with some eggnog to help) Kids had lots of fun tearing into them. Started a new tradition - find the pickle (a little pickle ornament hidden on the tree). It was a bit scewed to DS, since Little Miss did not really participate, but he had fun doing it.

Nothing super special for the rest of the year. I have my New Years shopping done (we open presents on New Years as well). Meal is all planned out. Now if we can stay healthy it would be good - we have had a stomach bug for Thanksgiving and Xmas this year. Should be fun though. Since it is not traditional here to celebrate it the way we do, it is way less stressful.

Plans for new year - nothing grand. We actually might take a family vacation that does not involve visiting family for a change. Maybe a camping trip... maybe a cruise - we are not sure yet.

We still talk about opening K's memory box pretty much every night, still did not work up to it. Maybe tomorrow... I am thinking about seeing if I can get my records from the MFM... I swear there should be more u/s pictures of him. But as usual have not worked up to actually calling them yet. I am planning to do it before the anniversary tough. Can we just skip January?

[bigdipper]

I'm here. Been here actually just lazy. We did not go anywhere for Christmas this year. We normally take turns every other year with my family or DH's. This year was my family's year but my parents spent the holiday with my younger sis in FL. So we celebrated with my family on the 21st. Christmas Eve and Christmas Day, we stayed home, just the 4 of us. (other then the couple of hours we spent at a neighbors house) It was lazy, quiet and nice, but I really missed dressing up and being with people. Oh well, it was lovely anyway.

We actually have a wedding on New Years Eve so that should be fun. Not sure the plans for New Years Day. We invited friends over but haven't heard back from them yet. Plan B is to go to another friends house.

Anyway, busy, but not really. Just trying HARD to keep Owen occupied during the school break.