What you got here is a tardy blog...

Wowza how the time does fly between blog posts. I'm just going to add some pictures and random thoughts to make it seem like I'm keeping up my blog. My mommy days are upon me in full force, and I spend most of my time in the mommy daze. Weird stuff to have no personal space, no privacy, no dignity, and no better place to be. Being a mother is hard to describe. I don't have the energy to give it a go right now anyway...

Here's the little 'un. She's glazed but gorgeous.



Here are the two together. Anna has taken her role as big sister very seriously. She has spent countless hours drilling Maria on her letters, numbers and colors. Maria thinks it's hysterical. Sometimes, though, when they think I can't see them in the back seat, they hold hands and giggle in each other's faces and I sigh my mommy sigh, simultaneously cringing at the years of conspiracy they will have as allies against me and delighting to know that what they have together is magical.

We had a wonderful Christmas here in Florida. It's funny that the addition of our wee little Maria this year, which increased our tiny family in number from three to four, has somehow squeezed us together more tightly as a unit. Somehow one tiny baby sucked the air right out of the shrinkwrap.

Here is Anna's Christmas play. When she told me she was the star, I thought it was pretty ridiculous to have a 4 year old girl play baby Jesus...but nope, she was the other star...

Thank you for checking in on us and reading the blog. I know you're busy too....