Resolved

It's time to return to the blog. It was unexpectedly placed on hiatus while adjusting to becoming a parent of two. Now we are more adjusted (just not all the way), at least to the point where I can justify returning here to update, and occasionally stand on my soap box.

Since last post, we both had family come out to visit with the new baby - Rachel's mother two weeks prior to Thanksgiving, and my parents the week of. We had a very good Christmas. Annalyn was very excited about opening presents, so we made sure to wrap as many individual things we could for her to unwrap. Even then it wasn't quite enough, as she got into opening our presents too.

New Year's Eve was fairly uneventful. I had to work all day to finish up our year-end inventory, and we fell asleep on the couch watching movies once midnight rolled around. But at least we were together, enjoying one another's company.

Now we stand on the threshold of a new year. A new beginning. Among my few resolutions this year, I'm tying to commit to witing here much more regularly, as I had originally anticipated. So here we are catching up, during the worst cold snap the Midwest has seen in over two decades. We're in the middle of a 2-3 day streak of being below zero, with wind chills dipping into the negative 40's. We all have faith and prayers that it'll pass, and that this isn't a curse that'll stick forever. In the meantime, we're hunkering down, doing our best to stay warm.