Well, hello there!

Facebook is to blame for the lack of updates here.  And the ton of paperwork at work spilling on to my personal time.  I just saw the 2 comments for the previous post that needed to be reviewed by me.  Sorry about that.  I still feel strongly that I should keep this blog because it really is the best venue to post current/recent pictures and events, and to, later on, go back to for reminiscing and for reassuring oneself that things do get better no matter how bleak things look sometimes.  Anyway, since I don't even know what we have been up to in the past 10 months, I shall start with the recent month.

December.  I love this time of the year.  The feeling of Christmas in the air.  The shopping.  The decorations.  The cooler weather.  My special someone's birth month.  Joseph always reminds me that we should always love God the most.  And so, I love December because we celebrate the birth of Jesus this month.

I am pretty proud of myself this year.  I am actually early in sending the Christmas cards to my folks in the Philippines and the cards for the folks in the US should all be mailed out this week.  I still need to finish decorating the inside of the house; but, the outside decorations are up.  The Christmas tree has been up for the past 2 weeks, although still undecorated.  Gifts still need to be wrapped, but, all bought and currently cluttering the dining room.

December 1st.  I can't believe that I didn't take a picture of Joseph this day.  My day was spent on boxing up stuff and addressing the cards.  I couldn't remember if Joseph did anything special, so I asked what he did yesterday.  He answered, "The basic stuff.  I watched videos on my computer."  Since I don't have a picture of him from yesterday, these are pictures of him from the day before.  He was very unhappy posing for pictures.  He takes after his Dad. 

                                         

December 2nd.  I felt like I needed to make sure that Joseph did something special, at least, different, today.  Even though I would have preferred to decorate the house today, Joseph really wanted to see a play.  His cousin - Taylor- was performing in the play.  And so we went; nervously, because Brady wasn't with us and that's always stressful to me.  Thankfully, everything went smoothly and we really enjoyed the play.  Taylor did a fantastic job as Marryin' Sam in their high school's production of "Li'l Abner".  Joseph's Nana and I thought that Joseph would want to leave during the intermission, but he wanted to see the whole thing.

Joseph with Taylor

That is all for now.  Hopefully, I can keep up with the updates.