A visitor!

I was talking to my cousin at Christmas time and he said that one of the fun things he'd like to do for his wife was to get her a plane ticket. She got to come on vacation here to the tropical weathered mid-west (HA!) to visit all of us and then spend some time with a friend of hers in Indiana. So this past week we had the privilege of having Ressa around. :)



This is her and I.




She brought Dance Dance Revolution with her, this is Jessica rockin' it out.




Abram just looks so much older to me now that we've buzzed his hair short!



Yesterday we loaded up the kiddos in the van for a field trip up to...



The Shedd Aquarium in Chicago!


Don't we look like a big crew? :P


Jellies!



Man (girl) eating fish!


Seahorses :)


Everyone promptly crashed out in the van on the way home too, that's always nice for a long drive.

It's been a fun week of girl talk, banana grams games and laughs. Can't wait 'til we see her again!

Somebody's taking up a lot of my time.....

But I don't mind. :)

3 weeks

Three weeks postpartum and I think life needs to return to more structure. While lounging and snuggling a newborn is SO nice, I just can't justify it for much longer. Not that I won't snuggle the little guy, he'll just be in the sling more often! This also happens to coincide nicely with the new year starting up in a few days.

~My goals for this month~

**Start up homeschooling again on Monday and actually teach school each and every day!

**Daily chores- the kids & mine. Plan them out and enforce them.

**Menu plan- I do this most of the time but I've taken a few weeks off as people brought meals :O)

**Eat wiser. One of the great things about people delivering meals is that they bring desserts...it's also the reason I probably haven't lost a single pound. I'm not going to 'diet' but I do need to make wiser choices.

**Work on inventory/pricing of items for my store (I'm getting excited about this one, I worked on it some today)

How about you, do you have any current goals?

Merry Christmas!!

~ The Sims Family ~