Ah, it's been a long time since I've blogged. I kept meaning to, but then a child would scream or I was trying to pack, or I was in KY with no internet. Anyway, we're back home now after a wonderful visit with the family! We had a party every night and then a great Christmas Eve! That was our day with Tim, Laura, Grace, and Holden. They came over for lunch and stayed until late so we got a wonderful visit! The boys are both blessed beyond measure and had so much fun! It's fun for us that Corban is starting to get Christmas. He definitely knows that Christmas is Jesus birthday, he kept telling everybody that he and his Daddy got the Christmas tree for Jesus birthday. But he's also starting to get Santa. We are doing Santa - some in his family don't, but I told him if he took Halloween away from me, I was doing Santa. I feel like I grew up doing Santa presents and I still knew the importance of the real reason we were celebrating.

Mom and Dad's new house is really nice, it was great to get to be there and not trying to go back and forth between other places. It was still a bit of a "camping" experience because they aren't totally finished with the inside work. We were mostly in the partially finished basement where she has a TINY kitchenette, but our bedrooms are all upstairs - no doorknobs on any doors! The boys both slept pretty well the whole time we were gone and have done decently since we came back. In fact, the little one is just now waking up and he went to bed very early last night. He's not "sick" but I don't think that he feels very good. Poor baby :(

Today Johnny is fishing, I'm hoping he doesn't get snowed in! We've got about 3 inches on the ground down here (he's up near Erie) and I'm debating going out to Target and the mall this morning. Friday we're having the group over for New Year's Day dinner - pork roast and sour kraut. I think Thursday we're just going to stay in. Di asked us over, but it's so hard with the boys, and we wouldn't be able to stay the whole time anyway. I can't believe that it's almost 2010! Didn't any year in the 2000's sound like they would never get here when we were younger, and now we're a decade in. I can't even begin to go back and do a "year in review" like Kim did (you must keep an incredibly detailed calendar!), but I know that my boys are growing up so fast and that we have been blessed as a family this year. We have a wonderful family, wonderful friends and church family, and God has given us all we need. There might be some things we wish we had sometimes, but when we think of what we do have, we can't help but acknowledge that all the good things we have been blessed with are not of our own doing, but come from Him. That's pretty comforting, that He is the one in control, not me!