Parade of Homes

As tradition states February brings a wonderful trip with my Mom and younger brother Todd. Normally the youngest sibling, Brent, comes but he up and abandoned us to go on a mission for the church....selfish huh?!? I look forward to this trip every year, sadly it almost got canceled due to the weather. David put his foot down and told me no matter what we would be going. Part of the drive this time was to be gone while our tub was re-caulked. Over time the caulking was separating and mold could be seen in the back.

The vacation was just what the Dr. ordered...well not literally but she would have if I gave her the chance. The time spent in the car was my favorite part of the trip. Mom and I spent the trip down talking about everything under the sun, while the drive to the different houses held a lot of joking, teasing, and general bonding. I would not trade that time for a million dollars.

After we returned we settled back into the sludge of life. Sunday my mothers great-uncle passed away. I do not remember him at the reunions but we did go visit his wife, Aunt Kathleen, before Christmas and I really felt for her loss. I took the day off to attend the funeral. I rode up with Grandma and Grandpa, enjoying their banter back and forth. After we went to dinner I ran an errand and came back to go through family history pictures with them. It was one of the best three hours of my life. I need to sit down and write out stories for each of the pictures they told me about. I have been thinking, as I have SO much free time (don't know if that was sarcastic or not), there are a lot of crafty type things that I want to start working on....build upon my talents so to speak. Here is the current plan:

1. break the week up into different days. CHECK.

2. assign one project per day. Example: Monday-Sewing, Tuesday-Cleaning, Wednesday-Family History, Thurs-Sat...keep empty cause you know I didn't do anything the previous days of the week.

So far this plan is working out to my benefit. I am now in the middle of three quilts, have played around on Ancestry.com and have watched a plethora of t.v. House work...well it still needs some help.

David has been hard at work in his culinary classes. He finished the first class with a solid A-. This semester he leaves for class around 5:30 a.m. for this second block., attends class until 12:00 when he heads home to do a little homework until he has to work or pick me up. I return home to do whatever needs to be done and finally see David around 10:00 p.m. when he gets home for the night and we crash. All in all the weekend is our only together time and is therefore jealously guarded. When times get tough I just think to myself...it could be A LOT worse, we are living a very comfortably, and it will all be over in two years. December 2012 can not get here fast enough!

Well this is about all I can think of on our updates. Hope all is well in your lives and will hopefully update soon.