Multitasking

The holidays are all about multitasking, and creating a balance between work and play. John returned to school today after a week and a half "off" - only all but 3 days of it (2 being holidays) were spent at his 2nd job. I still got my weekends off, plus 2 days before New Years, but spent most of my "free time" preparing for the holidays. Yesterday as the alarm went off, neither of us wanted to get up. We have been running on too close to empty for too long. We can't wait for our honeymoon in April!

On the plus side, we had a fabulous New Years party at John's parent’s house (sans the parents). Malicious Monopoly was played, and John won in the end.

A few days before we had a beautiful, wet snowfall. The next day, there was a huge flock of snowmen that arrived in the city of Saint Paul. I had a little bit of play time in with my errand running on New Years Eve, and so I took the time to photograph them in their beauty. Check out the Shutterfly link to see the whole collection.

Some good news... Part of the interior wall framing is done, so we have solid numbers on what kind of a space we have to play with for our laundry, bathroom and kitchen. We plugged it into a kitchen planner, and have a pretty good plan! Hurray! With any luck, we'll have insulation in that part of the house again by the end of the weekend. If we can only make it until then....