New entry for the New Year...finally!

First of all, Happy 2008! I have been somewhat absent since before Christmas...both literally and figuratively, I suppose. I have thought about posting a blog about a trillion times, but I haven't gotten around to it. I hope that you have all found the New Year to be full of promises, with or without resolutions :) Our holidays were amazing and probably the most-traveled of my 28 years. They also involved a LOT of relaxing! Now we are back home in VA and it's time to snap out of it! Justin and I are getting a head start on the spring cleaning...We have a three-bedroom townhouse, and TOO much stuff! We want to share our blessings with someone who could indeed benefit from them, rather than they sit in storage somewhere. The biggest blessing of the year (so far) has been that Justin has officially checked out of his job in Supply-2 and will check into a new one on Monday. He will have a job that he goes to work Monday thru Friday and works 8 hour days instead of 12-13 hour ones...He will not have to wake up early to go muster on his "days off"...He will be home every weekend...He will not have to cook! It will almost be like he has a normal job :) This comes at the perfect time, but then again God always has His way of making things happen that way! Alana will love having her daddy come home in the afternoon, instead of at her bedtime! We have both been recovering from the crud...went to the doctor in Nashville. Got meds. Got well. It's funny how that works, haha. She is now consumed and slightly obsessed with Cinderella...and all the Disney princesses for that matter! She is watching Beauty and the Beast as I type...No one's big like Gaston...I was afraid it might be too scary for her, but nooooo. She tells me, "Mommy, Beast fell down in the snow...I think he needs a bandaid!" She's tough, and has that nurturing nature all at the same time! It's time for some breakfast, and then I'm off to learn how to play "Come Right Out and Say It" (Kidding, I'm not that coordinated!) What I meant to say is I'm off to continue my cleaning. It's nice to be back.