Christmas Memories

We had a wonderful Christmas week with family. Here is the list (again in somewhat chronological order). Enjoy!

• Getting our Christmas tree from a wonderful tree farm (that we heard about not long ago)

• Finishing Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve (close call!)
• Making my first ginger bread house alongside my cousin (who also made one)

• Going to Christmas Eve service at our church (with a full house!)
• Watching kiddos open their Christmas presents and sharing their joy
• Receiving one of the best Christmas presents ever from Hubby - donations to some of my favorite organizations
• Recovering from a cold and some kind of stomach virus (I am still not sure what it was) - being healthy is priceless
• Watching Tangled (the Rapunzel movie) for the first time with my sister-in-law -- and nephews!

• Participating in our family reunion (lots of family members). Great food and fun!

• Youngest nephews joyfully shouting "I love you" before my drive home (~swoon~)!

Excuses - Part II

We came back from our road trip to DC last Sunday night. It was a great trip, but by our return, Hubby had been sick for four days. The night we came back, I became sick.

I had had a variety of symptoms but thought I was getting better. Instead, I got worse yesterday and needed to leave work a little early to take a nap. The nap lasted about 15 hours.

And I am still not getting much better.

I would really love to sleep some more to get the bug out of my system but my head is not feeling the greatest from the "nap" (plus two other 12--to-13-hour sleep nights I have already had the past week).

These are my latest excuses for the absence of blog posts. Please pray for me. Thanks!