2008 Start

We are now back less than a week from a trip to CA. It was our most ambitious and most satisfying.

I wanted to be home this Christmas because we had such a sad Thanksgiving because of the news of HKB's father. I had visions of sun, children running around, and visits with HKB's mom. And though it was colder than I thought it would be, there was sun, children running around my mom's house and very nice visits at HKB's mom's house.

On top of the standard HB visit, we first went to Kristen's house for her surprise party. She was so pleased we were there and I was so happy to do it for her after a really stinky divorce, sell your house and move into your parents' guest house kind of a year.

To manage the steer chaos that I knew my mom's house would have, we only stayed from Sunday the 23rd to the 27th. We woke up at the crack of dawn, or even before dawn to go to Berkeley. We had breakfast at the Harris Ranch--my first.

I am now too tired to spell out all the activities this holiday. I'll have to post later.

Sleeping noooow....