The bird is in her nest

Christmas was great, and in many ways less hectic than usual. I enjoyed spending time with my brothers and their girls, and I got to see Cara, Elaine, Diane, and Kelly, all in from out of town. I must admit I felt badly, like I didn't spend enough time with everyone. It used to feel like we had tons of time to get together over the holidays, and now I'm squeezing visits in here and there whenever I can find a free moment. Time moves too quickly, yet again.

Evan has been enjoying our family time together though. He loves having Mike home all the time to play golf on the Playstation 2 or help him set up his train set or go on little daily adventures. Every day we do something fun together. It will be hard for us to return to "real life" on January 3rd.

Before that comes the celebration of the new year. We don't usually go out--in fact, we haven't really gone out since the days of First Night Erie and our after parties at Mike's parents house. This year, we're trying something different. We're having a party, along the lines of the old ones at Mike's folks, but this time the kids are invited. We're going to spend the night up at Mikaele and Tim's--family fun and then grownup fun after the kiddies are in bed. I'm looking forward to it.

If I don't write again before then--happy 2005! I hope to make it an exciting and wonderful year.