Happy New Year!

I hope you all enjoyed your holidays with your families and look forward to following some of your own stories during 2010 as you bring home your little ones from around the world!

We have been 'holed up' at home for the last few days. Trying to get everyone better, but I noticed Shelby is starting to come down with something as of yesterday. Hopefully this will just be a cold. School will be starting back for Courtney and Shelby in a few days. The open house for the special needs preschool class is Monday. Hopefully we will be impressed! This next week we will begin our new routine (again... this word is used very loosely here) of having Abby and Romney home each day.

Today I ship off the laptop to HP again, but this time they are supposed to REPLACE it with a new laptop so hopefully that little saga can come to an end. I'm hoping to wrap up loose ends on various little issues as we go into the new year. I hope to begin dealing with the chaos around here... maybe! :) I feel like we have been on "react" mode too long! I drive my sisters crazy when I look back at how organized I used to be, but I just can't help to think that organized person still lives in me somewhere..... buried under a mountain of chaos! :) I haven't seen that side of me since Shelby was diagnosed with Leukemia back in 2000! Maybe 'she' just took the last DECADE off! :) I may never get back to that level of organized since this last decade brought with it 3 more children and a grandchild! I would be happy with progress, not reform! :) Happy New Year to each of you and may you reach your own personal goals this year! :)