We've been doing that other stuff, too. Christmas and Christmastime have been and gone, replete with a tree, family, snow, more gifts than Carter could stand, a weekend getaway, the works. We had a grown-up trip to Las Vegas with Jenelle's family that included Hoover Dam and the Buffet of Buffets. (And my 44th state: Arizona) We taught Carter about sledding, though his favorite sled-related activity is to pull it around the yard and along the beach, empty. I've been skating at the Marinette rec center on Sunday afternoons, which is hard on not-22-and-biking-100-miles-a-week feet and knees.

Sure there's also work work and house work, but meh. Jenelle seems to have caught the room-by-room redo bug and we're getting after the master bathroom first: wainscot, flooring, pulls, new light fixture, polished-nickeling the bath fixtures, etc. It's hard not to go all out and somehow the fact that it took us four years to polish a brand-new house in PA is seeming like a long-ago memory. We want it done NOW.