Well, after a month of Jodi trying to help me access my blog control panel, we finally met with success last week. Apparently some HSB changes made it so several bloggers were unable to access their accounts! Thanks to to Jamincea who helped me get my SOS to Jodi in the first place!

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and New Year. We have been very blessed in recent months. We are finally getting a well after 5 years of dealing with our well running dry, We are also getting a deck built onto our home. Since our home is on the small side, the extra space is much anticipated. We eventually hope to close in half of the deck and use it for another room. Homeschooling and co-op both continue to go well.  The last week of January we went on a five day trip to West Virginia and stayed at a Country Roads Cabin in Hico. We didn't see as much snow as we would have liked, but we saw way more snow than we have seen here in Virginia. It was quiet and peaceful. We got lots of reading done, played games, were blessed with two snowfalls, enjoyed the hot tub on the deck, the fireplace, and just being together.

Our sad news of the last couple of months was our loss of our recently acquired pet Maggie. She jumped out of our car on a trip to town and didn't return when called.  She got hit by a car. We miss her very much even though we had her for such a short time. My son, who got a digital camera for his 10th birthday had used it to take lots of videos and photos of Maggie. We are very happy to have those.