Party of Three

This Christmas the best present was Chip's homecoming. He has served over 6 years in the Army and now is home...for good!  He is still continuing his career as an Army Reserve, but he is home and this Christmas was truly one of the best for that reason. Our Christmas schedule was hectic as usual.  On December 19th, Lexi and I drove to Houston.  Thankfully the Ratcliff's offered to keep Andie for us.  On the 20th, Chip arrived.  His flight was late so the kids had to stay home.  The plan was for us all to go to the airport, but a 9:35 PM arrival time did not allow that.  So, mom, Kim, Chip's good friend, Emile and I went to the airport to pick him up.  We had the camera ready, the flip camera was on and we waited.  And waited.  And waited.  Finally mom's phone rang and it was Chip.  He was waiting for us in baggage...we were waiting by security!  Needless to say, it was not as eventful as we had pictured, but he made it a...

The plan for the other night: Put Lexi to bed at 8. Clean house. Update blog.  Realized I hadn't even posted about Christmas. Take a shower (the first one of the day). Read. Go to bed early. The reality: Lexi did not want to go to sleep. Got her in bed at 8:30. Cleaned the house. Lexi woke up. She started screaming. I went in her room. She asked me to rock her. I did. She held on tight when I tried to put her back to bed. I continued rocking her. Put her down. Sat down at the computer to blog. Blogger was not working. Continued trying. Stopped trying. Finally got in the shower at 10:30. Did not get to read. Did not get to update blog. Did not get to go to bed early. Did get to rock my 2 year old longer than normal. Would not trade my life for anything.