Back from a long absence

I have been home at the farm for nearly a week now (hence the lack of blog posts). My sister Bridget arrived the day after me, with Orrin and Silas. I had a really good time playing with Silas (he really enjoyed being pushed on this little toy cart, I think he likes the wind blowing in his face.) And then Rachel, Trey and little Ellis arrived two days ago. So for a while there were two babies here at the farm (we were knee deep in babies). But the Bridget, Orrin, and Silas, have since left for Michigan to visit Orrin's side of the family. But they will be back to celebrate our belated Christmas when Lucy and Josh will be here from Colorado. And what have I been doing with my free time? Mostly baking cookies and spending time with my sisters. And working on Christmas presents ( I realized now that I was insane when I decided to make something ). I'm going to try to read some over my vacation. I wasn't able to read very much over the semester (Cell Bio and grading pretty much ate up a majority of my free time). But next semester should be nice. I am taking my thesis credits and then one class independent study which means I can try to finish all the work for the class faster than normal (which is my plan, I would like to finish the class within a month and a half of the semester. ) My progress with my reading project has been dismal (I have only read one book (Russia)) but hopefully I can read two of the books I took home with me and write short little reviews on them (which I haven't done for the one book I have read yet). I promise to do better!

"I'm skeptical that you could yet intrigued that you may"- Dale Gribble