When we moved to Akron I remember thinking, "When we are done here, Jan will be 9 and our baby (not born yet) will be 4." Unbelievable. Jan will be 9 in March and Pati turned four two days after Christmas.
I have several good pictures that I am trying to post but suddenly my computer will no longer give me the option for pasting pictures in. Really, the reason I don't update this site very often is that there is always something that goes haywire. I can't tell all the times that I have written a post, attempted to put up pictures and it simply will not work.
Shucks. It just isn't as much fun to tell the story without them.
Christmas was wonderful. David was home. We stayed home all day and friends that are like family, Steve and Heather Holsenback and their new baby, came and spent the day with us. I didn't make a big dinner we just ate easy good things and didn't worry about food and dishes. We played games and with a few new toys and just enjoyed each other. We saved the last night of Advent for Christmas night and that is always a special thing for us to do together.
Pati is four now! She was born two days after Christmas. She wanted to have a spa for her birthday. Facial masks and makeovers, footbaths and toenail paint. So the girls and I fixed up their bedroom and it was a beautiful and fun way to spend some time...getting beautiful. A family that came to Akron for residency the same year we did, and a resident from the hospital that Pati thinks is pretty special came for cake and a pinata. It was a fun party even though her day follows Christmas so closely.
Sally, a special friend of ours from Akron, invited us to go with her to Akron's First Night, a New Year's party that covers much of downtown and involves music and crafts and buses and fireworks. The kids loved it.
Now we are into 2011, the year that we are done with residency. Looking forward to the change and moving, but appreciating this place that we have lived for nearly five years. I think the kids are excited about moving, but sad to think about leaving. Change is difficult. It is hard to visualize what it will be like. Whatever changes, they are looking forward to the change in David's schedule, and I hear them talking about when we move, when Dad can come home more.
We are looking forward to that most of all.
