It's been a while since the last post, but it's a busy time of year, as I'm sure you all know. We were up in Michigan for Thanksgiving, which was good except for the ride back. The only snow we've really seen so far this year was during the drive, so it took about 7 hours vs the usual 5. Part of that was due to traffic in Dayton, where there is a bunch of construction. And since we hit that around 6, as we ground to a halt we started hearing Aidan saying "eat" in the back. It figures that he'd learn that word early. So, we had to stop for dinner on top of that instead of just getting home. At least he just used the word instead of throwing a fit...
Then, last weekend my parents came over. We're also doing Christmas in Michigan this year on account of the new baby, so we had an early Christmas with them.
My dad was also nice enough to bring over a new CPU for the computer out of one he had that had died and been replaced. It was a pretty decent quad core, so a good upgrade compared to the dual core I'd been running, so he was kind enough to donate it and I went out and bought a new motherboard to set it up. I don't buy computers, I build one and upgrade a few parts at a time to keep it current, which avoid that painful lump of cash all at one time and keep me pretty up to date, but it seems these things never go as smoothly as planned (CPU fan I had didn't fit the new board, first board I bought wasn't quite what I wanted, etc), so it's taken a good week plus before I feel like it's all ironed out now. But, it's noticably quicker (the HD camcorder video used to be very choppy in the editing software, now it's smoothed out), so it's worth the effort. So, enough of my dorkness, but that's why we've fallen off the planet temporarily.
So, now we just have to work our way through this week, and then Jill gets the nice 2 week break. I'm working until Tuesday, but then we're leaving town for Michigan that evening for about a week.
I hope all of you that are brave enough to read this blog from time to time have a happy holidays.
This year's visit with Santa Claus didn't go quite as planned.....at first there was general panic.
Then more of a "how could you do this to me" despair. 
