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I have a few posts and pics from Christmas with our family. It was alot of fun! I also have a few posts from Urbana09 - InterVarsity's Missions Conference, held every 3 years. There were 16,000 university students in attendance! It was held in St.Louis Missouri and I was working there most of last week.

For now, I am taking this week off...as Drew goes back to regular (grueling) class schedule. We had a fantastic and relaxing weekend together though. We bought ourselves the Platinum Extended Edition of Lord of the Rings (used & cheaper on Amazon) and had a marathon watching them over the course of a day and half. We pretty much just took breaks to eat and sleep. For us, there are few opportunities to indulge in such complete relaxation and little responsibility. We enjoyed every minute. Drew definitely made it a great weekend for me because he cleaned the whole house, top to bottom (even inside the fridge), so I had nothing to worry about and could just focus on spending time with him.

So the rest of this week, I will be getting back into the swing of regular life, without adding work on top just yet. I went grocery shopping yesterday and have all our meals for the week planned out. I have a stack of library books sitting on my desk, waiting to be read. I am so excited to have time to get lost in several good books. And since the apartment is so clean I can get to some reorganization projects I have been putting off (closet, desk, and that pesky corner in the living room). We like to keep clutter to a minimum, and especially since we move so often purging unnecessary items is vital. I also plan to bake a few things, I enjoy doing this when I feel I have the time to both create something tasty and then clean the kitchen. :) I am also planning a short trip up to Dallas later in the week to spend some time with my brother before he returns to the frozen north at Carnegie Mellon. He has been telling me all about Avatar and how awesome it is, so I think we might go see that together. Feel free to give me a call if you would like to catch up this week, its definitely a good time.

Do please pray for Drew, it is hard for him to return back to school, knowing that he has NO BREAKS until this summer. He has a spring break, but he needs to use that time to study for his licensing exam (part 1), called the Step 1 that is in May or June. The next 6 months for him will be spent gearing up for this important milestone. The next 6 months for me will be spent supporting him, helping him stay sane, and encouraging him when he does not want to do it anymore.