I'm going to do a quick recap of the last few months so i can get up to speed on our lives thus far... (somehow my previous posts got a little out of order so I'm trying to straighten up!)
December was a blur it seemed. I tried to get it all done by a specific day but you know how those things go, thank goodness for Internet shopping! I hate the idea of giving gift cards so i try to do a little something personal if I can. We have decided that with Charles family next year that we are doing homemade gifts. I'm excited about this and have a few ideas, so we will see!
I ended up not doing all of my baking this year, giving up rum cakes and some cookies. I did do the caramel apples and peanut butter balls so I believe the recipients for those forgave me for not doing the other stuff! My family come over to have a baking party and we also celebrated Madison's 9th birthday along with Christopher's 20th! The kids decorated gingerbread houses as we got down to baking! My brother in law Chris took over the peanut butter ball "station" and decided that he was taking them all home with him! Those are fighting words my friend!
I ended up not doing all of my baking this year, giving up rum cakes and some cookies. I did do the caramel apples and peanut butter balls so I believe the recipients for those forgave me for not doing the other stuff! My family come over to have a baking party and we also celebrated Madison's 9th birthday along with Christopher's 20th! The kids decorated gingerbread houses as we got down to baking! My brother in law Chris took over the peanut butter ball "station" and decided that he was taking them all home with him! Those are fighting words my friend!
Christmas Eve and day were nice, we spent the time with both of the families. Something that we had not done in 3 years! So we enjoyed it all. (Forgive me, but I am starting to sound like one of those Holiday Letters!!) hahaha I did do one ONCE!! And I am alos happy to say that I got my third tree! Yup its a small white one that we are going to decorate NC style, UNC stlye that is! All Tarheel decorations and baby blue lights! Its going to be beautiful!!!
We brought in the New Years with friends. Charles recently learned that he was picked of for Warrant Officer so we had big decisions to make, because along with the promotion comes a move! To BOSTON!! So we pushed that aside for the night and enjoyed the "sauce" (some more than others~Charles!) and the company.
Now its 2009 and January was the month to make that decision! After knocking this around for what seemed like 100 plus sleepless nights and making pro and con lists and listening to the (unsolicited) advice of everyone, we decided as a family that Charles would be a Geo Bachelor. That means that he will be going to Boston and we will stay here at least until Lauren finishes school. It was a very hard choice to make and it will be a major change in all of our lives, but we feel that now is a good time as any to do this because we have our family support system nearby. We are going to take one day at a time and do this!