A Fresh Start

Alright, this will be a fresh start. I thought I would start a blog and use it and I didn't. so one of my resolutions this year is to try to keep a regular blog. But who knows what will happen. Life has been good. The Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas season was wonderful.

We took Allison trick or treating on Halloween. We only did two cul-de-sacs. The last house we went to scared the little bear. She went to grap candy out of the bowl and the fog blower blew onto her and she ran away as fast as she could! she was pretty much done after that and it was cold for Halloween.

For Thanksgiving we went to visit Cindee and her family in Jacksonville Illinois. About an hour and a half south from here. It was great. We had good food, went and saw A Christmas Carol at the theater, spent time together with the whole family (though we missed Michael and the Hunsaker Family), spent the night and came back home the next day. The monday after thanksgiving was no fun here though. I got the stomach flu and was sick in bed for 24 hours. I then managed to pass some form of it around to everyone in the house, Allison was the only one who didn't get much of anything thank goodness. But for the rest of the week someone else in the house was sick. But eventually we all got better.

Then came Christmas. We put up the tree and decorated it as well as the rest of the house a few weeks before Christmas. We also realized that we couldn't put any Christmas presents under the tree without Allison throwing a deadful fit for not being able to open them. So the only presents we put under the tree are the ones she helped us wrap. Everything else had to wait until after she was asleep Christmas Eve Night. One of my favorite things that we do on Christmas is bake cookies and bring them to friends. We also read the birth story of Jesus in the Bible on Christmas Eve and we read The Night before Christmas. Christmas Day we opened presents. Allison had a moutain of presents to open and she ended up waiting to open her presents until she was ready and after she was finished playing with the previous present. I will have pictures soon! But Christmas was great as it always is.

Then came New Years. I was determinded to stay up till midnight, but as my luck had it I fell asleep 10 minutes before midnight. I woke up 10 minutes after midnight. The night was uneventful for us. But January 1st is the family annual finger foods day!!! We make lots of delicious treats and snack in two waves all day and into the night. Cindee and her family came to visit that day. We exchanged more presents, played games, hung out, and shared good food.

It is now January 8th and the Christmas decorations are all put away. Both Allison and I are sick once again. This time I think I have a sinus infection and my throat has been hurting me for 4 days now. Allison is just stuffy but she also has this nasty cough and coughs up stuff, but then swallows it instead of spitting it up. We are going to the doctor this afternoon to make sure we don't have anything that is in need of any antibiotics.

Goals for this year are to get Allison to sleep in her own room all night long with no problem. also to get Allison potty trained. I have a weight loss goal like everyone else does and I want to lose 35 pounds. I'm aready down 5 pounds, but I think it's from being sicj so it doesn't count. Jason and I both want to go on a vacation. An actual vacation and not just to visit other family members. So we are going to do that this year!! And I am going to try to save more money then I have been doing. We should be able to save almost a $1,000 a month and we only get $150 saved a month. So that needs to change, mainly I need to do things that don't cost money and I need to stay home instead of shopping a few times a week. So far, so good on that goal.

Well, that's about it for now. I'll update on my darling 2 year old Allison next time and talk about her adventures and her terrible two's!!! Until then.....