H O M E

We are home again!!!   Best thing ever - to return to our home, the place we love the most.
The kids had a great Christmas with their cousins, but honestly, the sound of them in the bathroom right now while one takes a bath and the other plays and sings on the floor in there is more centering than all five days away.  Dinner is cooking on the stove, the sun is just going down, and the first part of the holiday is a wrap. 

Some of the low points of the holiday were that by Christmas day I had a raging cold.  I slept most of Christmas day - which was the best gift I could have given myself - and highly unusual.  I pretty much bounced back after that.   Next low point, Anna's brother pulled out his back, so he was down for the count for most of those days as well.  Anna was a bit disappointed because he is such an active outdoorsy kind of uncle and she was looking forward to him motivating the clan to go outside.  Luckily Anna jumped in and led the pack, hide-n-seek in the woods, and an assortment of invented games made up by (her!).  Everyone else filled the time well and of course the kids just have a ball no matter what.  

It seems as if Anders has come down with the same cold I had and he slept most of the way home today.  Hence why he is taking a long hot bath right now - we are hoping to steam it out of him and get him ready for round two of the holiday week happening right here in our neck of the woods.  There's no place like home.