Apartment Fever

Hey.

It's been awhile, huh?

The Christmas season has come and gone, along with the beginning of a new year.  Both are such great times of reflection, but I was keeping pretty busy.  I do have, like, a bazillion photos of our break that you're probably going to have to suffer through for the next several letters.  So, be forewarned.

Like this one where Evelyn MASTERED Katie's frown.  Oh my word.  Aunt Katie was trying to show her how to take a good selfie, I guess.

So here we are, two weeks into 2016.  The babe and I are hibernating in our coziest of cozies on this brisk, sub-zero day and not feeling the cabin fever one bit.  Except that we aaaaaare.  What we would give for just twenty more degrees of warmth so that we could at least venture to Target or HyVee.

At least I can say that Evelyn has put herself to sleep for two naps today without making one peep.  A few days of letting her cry it out for naps and bedtime, and I think/hope/pray that we've gotten to where she will self soothe.

On the up side of this being stuck inside- I've gotten to dig into my colored pencils to try out some new things, so that's fun.  Hoping to stretch myself and get the creative juices flowing a bit more this year.

Speaking of hopes for the year, I've created a list of goals for 2016.  Not resolutions per se, but a few things to keep me on track and challenge me to get outside of my comfort zone.  I'm thinking that my word for the year might need to be something along the lines of productive.  That's not the most exciting word choice though, so I'm going to think on it a little longer.

Last year's word was peace, and I feel like I was able to hold onto that pretty well.  I mean, we had some fairly huge changes in our life, and I never felt too overwhelmed.  (Minus a few weeks of thinking I was going to die from nursing baby girl.)  To make the understatement of the year, it was a good year.

Well, I have about four loads of laundry that I'd like to get going while Bozzie is sleeping, so I'm going to wrap up with a good ole photo dump!

[how she felt about rice cereal]

[her reaction to Jered's arrival in Canton]

[Christmas Eve story time with Dad and Uncle Chadd]

[Dad in his matching family Christmas PJs]

[annual Christmas morning shot]

[Squash and carrots are much preferred!]

Whew!  And those were just some of my favorites from the first part of break.  You'll just have to wait until next time for the rest of my faves!  Muahaha.

Ta-ta!

Aim