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Recently me and Shaun took advantage of the fact that we were paying for childcare over the 2 week Christmas break whether we were using it or not. The kids went to school. We went to a movie. Movies are very rare these days. Well at least ones with out talking cars or robots. We saw 4 Christmases with Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon. Mainly because there weren't very many good options at the time ( it was before all the Christmas day releases.) We wanted something light and short and funny. Besides we like all those dysfunctional family Christmas movies.....like the "Family Stone", "Dan in Real Life" and the mother of them all "Home for the Holidays". In case you haven't seen the movie...let me give you a brief synapsis. The main characters have plans to spend Christmas on a beach somewhere, but their flight is canceled. They are busted and end up committing to spending Christmas with their families. All 4 of them. Both of them have divorc...

I love going to my mailbox this time of year. Usually it is only filled with junkmail and bills. This month it is filled with friends. Their faces and letters make me smile. The Christmas letter has always baffled me a bit. I love reading them and getting to catch up on people's lives. But I have never quite known what to see. Most of these letters seem a bit too polished. I don't mean grammatically.......more like some of the stuff of life has been left out. One of my good friends has always joked about writing a REAL Christmas letter. Starting out with something like, " This year we filed for bankruptcy" or "we managed to stay married for another year" or "my son is failing half of his classes". Imagine the response those would get! So I will attempt a REAL letter. Some of the highlights as well as some of the lows. My tendency is to be super wordy.....but I'll do my best to keep it to a reasonable length. When I reflect on the year...

maybe some of you have noticed that i have taken a break from blogging for a while. a month. an entire month has gone by since my last post. i didn't even take that much time off after delivering a baby. my absense has not been due to lack of material. i have plenty. not even necessarily lack of time. although it is in short supply these days. i just haven't. i have been decorating cookies, and looking at christmas lights, not sleeping and occasionally grading papers. it is probably the attempted balance of 2 and going back to work and sick babies. ...but..... instead of trying to do more this Christmas, i have tried to do less. buy less presents. send out less christmas cards. only slightly less. it still isn't like me to skip a party. but things like blogging, laundry and pictures with santa have been put on the back burner. time just passed. email went unchecked and the dished piled up in the sink( ok...the dishes part isn't so abnormal for my house). maternity leave...