Holidays

I'm in denial that the lazy mornings and time spent together is almost at an end. Back to school on Monday is both bitter and sweet. With most of us getting sick the week before Christmas vacation, we've had a grand total of three weeks together. The start of this week it was pretty obvious that we were all getting a little sick of each other... but thankfully we found some fun diversions.

The holidays consisted of Grandparents visiting (oh happy days), family traditions, museums, last basketball games, lots of little parties, enjoying our new kitten (oh how the kids can play with him) as well as other new birthday and Christmas gifts, lots of sledding, cross-country skiing, hot tubbing (and LOTS of hot chocolate), an unexpected but so enjoyed visit from good friends, ice skating, sibling sleepovers every night, playdates and neighbors over, project completing, and new projects started, New Years partying and staying up till midnight (for all but The Toddler and I) and just unwinding and spending time together.

We are finally starting to settle in and feel like we belong here. Not completely, mind you, but there are much less tears nowadays than there were the last few months of missing things and people from our old home. Hopefully this new year will bring on that settled feeling more and more as we make this our home.

(lots of pictures in no particular order - mostly for Grandparents!!!)