2009 is finally upon us

Hello, everybody. I know it's been nearly a month.

Here's a bullet list of what we've been up to:

• Thanksgiving with my parents.
  
• Black Friday for Brian.
  
• Preparing for Christmas, which included crochetting many, many scarves, stamping tags, baking cookies, making candy, and trying to keep most of our Christmas gifts low key and handmadeif possible.
  
• Going to the doctor and finding that I had ovulated this cycle (yay!). Then waiting while my body began to do weird things. Breaking my promise to be rational and not get my hopes up.
• Christmas Eve with my mom's family.
  
• Christmas Day with Mama, Daddy, Little Bro, and Sweet Lizzy.
  
• Brian's parents here from December 26-29. It was great to visit with them! We missed his sisters, though. AnchorGirl and CopGuy live so far away it's ridiculous, and Nurse Baileys was sick as a dog. And had bowl game tickets. A WVU game while you have the flu is still a WVU game, people.
  
• Hill Christmas on December 26th. Brian's parents went along, and it was a ton of fun.
• A very laid back few days of work.
• New Year's Eve with some family, playing Apples to Apples (which I will be buying!).
• New Year's Day spent sewing and being lazy.
• One last Friday of easy work.

What we have to look forward to:

• Inventory for Brian at work. Yuck!
  
• A cool experience taking a class together next weekend (details will come eventually).
  
• Christmas with The Bum and the Yaya Princess.
  
• A recital for my piano students in February.

And, here's a sampling of what I plan to enjoy this weekend since I'm

officially Not Pregnant this month:

Well, there you have it. A very busy month. I'm hoping to write on a more regular basis this year, but I also hope to get my house In Order and Clean. You may see me organizing closets like a mad woman in the coming weeks. Stand back! Or come help.....