Happy New Year! I hereby resolve to post more often, if only too keep my mom happy. I fully expect this to last about a month, but we'll see. As Grover once said "Where there is life, there is hope"
I'm incredibly awful at keeping resolutions, or diets or exercise plans, or anything of that sort. But saying that, the most successful exercise in self discipline I've ever had has been being a vegetarian, which is going on a year and a half now. I've never even really been tempted to have meat, and I used to love meat. But if I try and stop drinking soda, I'm having a Mountain Dew within a week. Go figure.
As for Christmas, we all had a wonderful time, doubly wonderful (and yet a little sad) because we did no traveling at all, no flights or long car rides or anything, so that was nice. We did get lots of excellent presents, though, and 'Santa' even brought us a Wii, which is the most fun ever. Ella was thrilled with her Nesting dolls, and she got a new bike too. I'll put up a hilariously tragic video of one of her bike rides. She's really good at riding, but we got a big bike so she could grow into it, but that means right now her feet don't touch the ground. Dragging her feet is how she normally stops, so without that options stops sometimes results in falls. But she wears her HSM helmet and has yet to be seriously injured.
We also got another big package a bit after christmas which was our cloth diapers. Katie had asked us a while back if she could do anything to help, even though she was far away, so we gave her our credit card info and a spending limit, and she bought us a variety of cloth diapers for us to try out and figure which ones we like. She did a great job, and now I want to have a personal shopper for everything!
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3 comments:
Thanks for the great pictures. We can't wait to see everyone. Hope you can make it back to Chicago soon. Nate, I'm going on 6 months of no carbonated drinks and it has been hard. Some days when the kids are driving me nuts I crave my diet coke. I used to drink 8 cans of diet coke a day. You can do it. Love, Aunt Leanne
The pictures are so great! I'm amazed you got such a long photo shoot out of them with unopened presents under the tree!
I had fun buying your diapers, I should look into a private shopping career! Oooo that would be fun.
The pictures help a little, but I can't wait to hold Desmond in my arms! I can hardly wait until Wednesday.
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