Wow - what a holiday season - lots of good foods, desserts, fellowship and now time to go back on my diet to lose the dessert parts! It was worth it, though! We stayed at Aunt Jenni's New Year's eve and I went in to lay down with Lyndsay after the midnight ball dropped and fell asleep myself:( But, everyone else had fun and stayed up til wee hours of the night. We got up, made pancakes for breakfast, watched the parade for a bit then headed home. The wedding was beautiful (the church was still decorated for Christmas - lots of lights, etc.) and we had fun visiting with family there. Saturday night we had Christmas with my Mom and Bill at Heather and Brian's house - that was fun. Francisco got to come with us and he hopefully had a good time - I know it was atleast memorable:) We played dominos there, too - fun game! It's nice when the kids get older, you can actually sit down and play something without being interrupted every 5 seconds! Especially when the cousins are playing! Now we are trying to get into more of a schedule. Getting to bed earlier, up earlier and going in the morning. Started school again this Monday. Going pretty good. Jeremy's been working on organizing things, putting away things in the barn so we can get farm equipment back in there. They are coming out to inspect the well on Monday. A few more inspections to be done before we are done. Once they are all done with those, then we can build something for the horse and chickens and do a few more electrical things in the barn. We moved my 2nd set of washer/dryers into the room in the barn as well as our freezer and then Jeremy moved his lathe and some shelves in there for tools. My norditrak is in there, too and the room is pretty well full now! We've been putting the dog in there at night - too windy and cold outside. He loves his kennel full of hay and shavings!
Monday afternoon, Erin, Lyndsay and I took Amber, Rachel and Fransisco back to college. We hit a snowy stretch for about 80 miles on I94 and got there around 6ish I think. I headed back about 8pm. Erin got so upset after we pulled away, I had to turn around, call Amber back out so she could give her a kiss as well. I pulled away the second time and Erin wanted to tell her she loved her. Sorry, only twice going back for me kiddo... She always wants to stay at college with Amber! When we go up to Amber's room, she and Lyndsay like to race up and down the dorm hall and I encourage it so that they burn energy they've accumulated from 5 hours in the car and a nap:) Then, we dress in jammies and head back home. I ended up stopping for a nap again at around 10pm and then got home 1:45am. It's funny - I fight staying awake all the way home and once I was home, I couldn't fall asleep! UGH! Amber had a job offer with Americall which will help her pay for schooling in full with no student loans. I am proud of her for taking it. It will be hard with classes and everything, but I know she can do it! She had to move to a different dorm after agreeing to the employment. Be praying for her, please! I believe it's an opportunity God has put out for her to enable her to keep going and finish her schooling!
Brooke came out this morning and announced that Sheridan Road had a snow day! I laughed and said - too bad for you:) So, after we got the majority of our school done, we all got dressed up warm and headed outside to enjoy the new snow. We went across to the neighbors (love our neighbors - he had already plowed our driveway for us:), and got to see 2 of the 18 or so calves he's expecting fro heifers in the next few weeks. The mommas were very nervous and protective, but it was neat - they are a week old and very cute! Jeremy got the snowmobile to start with no problems and we headed up to the hill at the neighbor's to do some sledding! Lyndsay even went down with me once. After an hour, we were hungry and getting cold. Erin was upset we had to stop - she didn't want to quit sledding! We are all tired out from all the fun! Curt and Brooke are at all night youth activities - separate locations for the boys/girls so we dropped them off and I stopped by our old neighbors on Moore Rd to give them some banana bread and our Christmas card and new address info, then headed to Jen's to practice a song for sunday night and even got to eat some of her delicious lasagna and salad before heading home. Erin and Lyndsay had a great time playing with her girls and didn't want to leave! I need to get up early and pick up the kids at 9am and 11am and am bringing one or two extra boys home for the night - our first guests in the mobile home since we've had power:) So, I need to get to bed and get my beauty sleep:) Lyndsay has been sleeping awhile and now I have to convince Erin and Isaac it's ok to sleep in their rooms with big brothers and sisters here. Isaac hates sleeping alone and it's even worse now that his room is at the opposite end of the house from us:( I used to be able to convince him it was ok because I'd leave our door open and his room was just across the hall in the old house. So, wish me luck! Have a good weekend and God Bless!
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