Is this thing on?

Hello? Anybody still out there? Or have you all given up on me? I couldn't blame you if you had!

I'm still around though! I've been trying to catch up with my bloggie friends lately...slowly but surely. Nothing exciting going on, just life, you know. Harvest is done and it gets dark at about 5:30, which is a combination I love because it means I get my husband back in the evenings! He's been so helpful lately, playing with Bug while I make dinner, helping with baths, dishes, picking up toys, etc. This past weekend, he even was able to spend the majority of the weekend with us, which is a very rare thing anymore. It was so fun to have him around! I could definitely get used to this. I better not though, because in about a week or so we'll get an extra 200 or so head of cattle for him to be taking care of. The good thing is, he should still be home in the evenings...just not as much on weekends. Well, he'll be "home" as in...on our farm...but not in the house where we are. We can get bundled up and go out and "help" for a little while but with temps barely reaching 20 degrees lately, I don't think that's the best idea.

I'm feeling great. A little heartburn here and there, a little sciatic nerve pain now and then, but all in all I really can't complain. I'm 25 weeks already...scratch that...26 weeks tomorrow. Amazes me how fast this pregnancy is going. Babies are busy little bees in there! Always wiggling around. I'm always wondering what on earth they're doing. Both are head up now. Baby Boy always has been and Baby Girl decided to join him that way. I guess she wanted to be able to talk to her brother instead of just kicking him in the head like she had been doing. I'm not worrying about their positions too much. If they don't flip back, well, I guess my decision on how to try to deliver is pretty much made for me. If one or both flip, then we'll cross that bridge when we come to it. No sense in worrying about things I can't control.

Christmas is just over a week away! And believe it or not, I'm just about ready. This is the most organized I've ever been for Christmas, its great! We finished all our shopping about a week and a half ago, cut our tree on Sunday and put it up last night. Bug loved getting all the ornaments out of the box. He only had interest in hanging the first couple ornaments. After that all he wanted to do was unload the box. Not surprising. But he did put the angel on top, with help from Daddy! I have more than half the presents wrapped, and we made cookies as a family last weekend. I'm hoping to make more this weekend. This Christmas has been the most fun Christmas for me since I was a kid myself. I've always looked forward to Christmases with my own kids, and this seems to be one of the few things that I've looked forward to for so long and is actually living up to the picture I have in my mind. Usually I build something up so much in my head, that its nearly impossible for the actual event to live up to my hype. But Christmas with kids? It really is as great as I imagined! And to think, this is only the beginning!! Its going to be more and more fun every year!

I have a million other things that have popped into my head over the last few weeks that I've been meaning to blog about. But if I try to fit them all into this post, I'll never finish it and that will just contribute to my blog slacking. So this will do for now! Hope everyone, where ever you all are, is staying warm! High of 19 today...low of 8 tonight. Brrrrrrr, and its only mid-December too!