I've been neglecting my blogging duties lately.  We've been incredibly busy the past month or so, and I'm still trying to recuperate from a nasty illness that struck on Christmas Eve of all days!  Other than that, we had a great Christmas.  Nick's only request for Santa was for a monkey (of all things!)  Fortunately, my mother-in-law bought him a FurReal monkey, which he loved.  My mom bought Rachael the metal detector that she had been begging for.  Ever since she saw a documentary about modern day treasure hunters, she's been convinced that she's going to find the next archaelogical find of the century, or at least make her first million!

I also finished up an ad campaign that I had been working on for a local lawyer.  I was less than pleased with the final results, but he liked it...  I guess that's what counts since he's paying the bill!  The next project is a website overhaul.  Wish me luck!

We started school again on Monday after having taken off nearly a month.  We got a lot accomplished, but co-op doesn't start again until Jan. 31st.  I think Rachael is going into withdrawal.  We generally see our co-op friends at least 2-3 times a week on average, but over the holidays, it's been scarce.

We did get a lot of work done on our house over the holidays ... that was a huge plus.  (Background: We currently rent a townhouse, but still own our previous house about 2 hours south of here that we're fixing up to sell.)  We have A LOT of painting to do, and need to figure out what to do with the hardwood floors which are in pretty bad shape...

Well, I'll try to be more diligent in my blogging from now on, but for now ...