Sorry about that last post. Lesson learned: i should NOT try to create a post in the wee hours of the morning!

The holidays were really nice this year. Being given an opportunity to reflect on them again this morning, I was thankful for how surprisingly low-key I felt about them, compared to past years. I really savored alot of moments, even though nothing particularly momentous happened. I also enjoyed a couple of extra long stretches of time away from work, though it made it especially disappointing to return this week.

I think Yosi benefited from me being at home as well. If I had to guess, I'd say her New Year's resolution is to ride on a school bus. She begun taking an important step toward that by voluntarily restarting potty training. It's so much less stressful this time around, mostly because she tells me when she's ready and can do the work of removing clothing on her own. Now to get that pacifier out of her grip... As my FaceBook friends know, the paci-fairy has been watching her and may one day soon decide she's big enough to do without them, no matter how Mommy's heart may break for her baby-turned-little-big girl.

Yesterday David and I celebrated 8 years of marriage. If you would have asked me 8 years ago, I would have been really impressed by how mature that number sounded, but now I know it's just a drop in the bucket, and I'm glad. I'm looking forward to tripling and quadrupling that number. It feels in some ways like the journey has just begun. I couldn't be more pleased with my traveling partner.

I had much more written, but I lost my connection and lost 4 paragraphs of work... Perhaps it's best this way. I'll have much more to say after tonight! ;) Until then...