Yeah I'm still here. Christmas seriously just puts me behind by several weeks. We stayed home for Christmas Day this year and had a perfect white Christmas. The kids opened presents, mom and dad assembled everything, and then they played outside in the snow. I never in a million years expected it to actually snow on Christmas. It was 80 degrees the week before! We were thankful for it though and the kids thought it made Christmas perfect.
After Christmas we made our trip to KS. My dad has had some serious health issues and wanted everyone home for his birthday so we made it happen. Our trip got cut short because of another snow storm moving in, but we got to see everyone. We decided that we need to start making more trips north to see everyone, but it's really hard right now. We desperately need a new car for one thing. Mine is at that point where I don't really trust it to drive that far unless its an emergency. We actually have been looking at cars for months with no luck. We really need something that seats 8. It's not unheard of that I would be driving 4 kids (both kids have friends where the sibling is friends with my other kid) plus a baby or two at some point. The kids like the Toyota Sienna, I think I prefer the Honda Odyssey, and Matt likes the Enclave. My issue with the Sienna is visibility. I seem to have several blind spots while driving any van, but less with the Odyssey. We haven't come across anything that is black, leather interior,, and under about $30,000. I refuse to pay more than $30,000 on a car just on principle. Otherwise, I would buy an Infiniti QX56. That's what I love.
The other issue is work. When you own your own business you don't get paid find off and missing a day is losing a lot of income for us. The kids are also not out of school much and Texas is really strict about how much they can miss per year. We also have gymnastics and Madison is finally agreeing to be more aggressive with that. It's just hard to coordinate everyone's schedules and the car situation. We are determined to try though.
That's what's going on in our house these days. Nothing terribly exciting. Just busy.
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