Sorry for the lack of posts – it’s been a rather hectic few weeks. My grandma (biological dad’s mom) died and so my mom and I drove down to Panama City to be there for that and then my other Grandma had her knee replaced the next day. The highlight was I was able to see and recconect with a lot of my family that I haven’t seen in awhile and now we’re all vowing to keep in touch more often. Needless to say it was a really emotionally draining trip and it was good to be home. Stoli went “swimming” in the Gulf while we were down there, although her reaction was too be expected. We have to carry her out in the rain and she steps around puddles, imagine a huge puddle. But she does know how to swim, I had to wade out and stand on a sand bar to get her out there but she swam. I’ll post pics of the trip soon.
I finally managed to register for my classes – 8 more credits after this semester. This semester is just kicking my butt. I have papers in every class now. One was just assigned a couple of days ago with only 3 weeks left of the semester. We’re off this coming week for Thanksgiving (and so is Casey) but I have so much stuff that I have to get done before the end of the semester I won’t really have any days off between that, cleaning, cooking for Thanksgiving, and decorating for Christmas.
We went and bought a tree tonight – a 7.5 foot, pre-lit tree and looks really good fro being fake. I’m all in the holiday spirit now and can’t wait to decorate the first tree of our own!