This is Kim's first Christmas and our first Christmas in California. We are celebrating it with Jeff and Becca. It's been nice to take a break from school - especially this past quarter. I failed Infectious Disease and have the chance to take it again this next quarter. I am allowed to miss one class that is required for national boards, so as long as I pass all my classes this next quarter I'll be okay. I have been scanning in class notes to be able to study better and to sell them for my class and myself for profit. It's really coming together. Blake is even helping me with setting up a website to host all the files.
Kim has been growing up extremely well this year. She is still tiny which is great :) She's able to wave, shake and nod her head. In fact today when we were at the Christmas party, someone asked Kim if she was adorable and Kim nodded. It was so precious.
She still isn't vaccinated. Both Monica and I are, and we just don't know if we want to. There are pros and cons both ways and it's tough to figure it out. Part of me wants to say that if you eat healthy, move well, and think well you'll be fine. The other part of me thinks of Murphy's law and that she could get sick and die. I am not prepared to make a decision now, but I know how I feel. I feel that if we were to get her vaccinated I would feel like we gave in and would regret it. So I need to study it out and figure out this controversial issue. Needless to say, she is still cute.
As for Christmas, Monica and I sat down and wrote down some Christmas traditions that we would want to implement. Obviously Kim isn't aware of what's going on now, but seeing her cousin who just turned three we can tell it means a lot for him. We started to wonder what do we want to focus on during Christmas time. It's easy to talk about Santa and say Merry Christmas, but how do you bring Christ in one of the most busiest times of the year?
This year it helped that there were three baptisms within two weeks in December. It forced us to do church work, but still it was hard to bring it home. Our washer gave up the ghost so we had to buy a new one (THANK YOU Craigslist), also bought a wii with a projector (also cheap deals - thank you again craigslist). Monica got the whole family to pull together some money so that I could get a chiropractor table. She got $600 together! WOW! I got her a silhouette and power tools that she wanted.
Overall this season has been fun. I have loved being able to just be home with Monica and Kim. They are my family and the reason that I work so hard. I love them with all my heart. I am lucky to have such a wonderful wife and daughter.
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Great. when she learns how to use the Silhouette, she can come show me how to use mine ;). Tonight, as Michael read the Christmas story to our kids from Luke and Matthew, he prefaced it by talking about our nativity and asking Landon to point out the characters when they were mentioned. He was so excited. Each time he heard a name, he would clap his hands and look around to see why we weren't all as excited as he was about this. "Guys! It's the baby Jesus! Yay!!(clap clap)"
ReplyDeleteWe made gingerbread houses this year. fun but i'm not sure it's a tradition yet(lots of work to do it the way i want to). And we like to take pictures from the past year and cut them up and make ornaments out of them. then our tree is full of memories. We always read "Twas the Night Before Christmas" and we usually have a Christmas Eve gift (pajamas/pillows).
Sorry, did you want to hear all my traditions? I'm so glad you are having a lovely Christmas. Give everyone a squeeze for me. We love you!
Lorinda