Happy New Year!
Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted and now it’s a new year so it’s time for me to catch up. We had a very fun and busy holiday season and Leif had a great time with his Grandpa visiting for Christmas. We made lots of yummy food and sweets (including awesome homemade fudge) and did some fun stuff with Grandpa. I’ve got some good pix of Michael, his Dad and Leif all jamming on instruments together (dad on saxophone, Michael on guitar and Leif on everything else) and Leif and Grandpa played with all his new toys and puzzles alot, too.
Michael made Leif a beautiful wooden kitchen for Hannukah and he just loves it and plays with it alot. He unfortunately fell onto the kitchen edge after slamming the door to his playroom (which we always tell him not to do) and landed just so that his ear got bruised and his ear lobe where there is no cartilage actually split in half. It happened a few days ago when Michael came home from work for lunch. We rushed him to the urgent care center right by our house and he had to get 4 stitches. It was awful but is healing well and we go tomorrow to have the stitches removed. I really don’t know how it could have happened bec. the kitchen is very child safe with rounded edges and corners. Michael has since gone over the corner again with more sanding just to be sure because our kid is such a klutz. I think he hurts himself at least once a day, this one just happened to be in a soft spot with alot of force onto basically a piece of furniture at kid height. Michael was calling it the “perfect storm” of accidents for Leif. I hope we don’t ever have to deal with this again.
Other than that weirdness, we have been doing some more projects to make our space function better since we know we will be here for a few more years until we find the piece of land or new community with a house we can design and have built for our forever home. I’m still holding out for moving to the Santa Fe area, a place I have always felt I belong but Michael’s job is here so here it is we stay – for now at least. Good thing he also really likes Santa Fe but not as much as I do so it’s still on the table as a future option.
He’s busily building new shelves for Leif’s toys in the play room. It’s part of my xmas present, actually. I only really wanted house organizational stuff done. He’s using the same wood as the kitchen so he’s really super aware of any possible edges on those rounded corners, too. This is going to make so much more room in the play room and better organized, too. I can’t wait. Then he told me today he will install new carpet in that room, too since it’s the only other room we have actual wall to wall carpet in (besides the basement) and it’s never been replaced since we moved in so I’m totally stoked on that.
I hope everyone had a good holiday and new year’s and that you all have a great year ahead of you!
January 06 2008 11:23 pm | Home and Leif and Mel and Michael and holidays
January 7th, 2008 at 1:19 am
Oh, I’d miss you so much if you moved to Santa Fe, but at least I’d have a reason to go visit. I LOVE Santa Fe- New Mexico is my birth state, (Albuquerque to be exact), and I never seem to go back there. All the best to you guys in the New Year!