Christmas!

We had a great Christmas at the Long house in Cary, Brittney was off work Friday and Monday, and is now returning home to Winston on Tuesday morning. Dad had off work the same days and is also taking off Tuesday and Wednesday to get some work done around the house.

I decided that this year we should try a new church for Christmas Eve. We're Catholic and so we usually attend Christmas Eve Mass. Usually is a bit of an overstatement as Mass has become so dry and boring (the Catholic religion as a whole, in my opinion, has become out of touch) that we rarely attend, and can't really even call ourselves "Christmas and Easter Catholics" anymore. I looked up non-denominational churches in Cary and we went to Triangle Community Church and had a lovely service. The Children's groups sang a few songs at the beginning, then the band took over and we sang Christmas Carols for about 20 minutes, had about 25 minutes of a sermon, and then ended with more Christmas Carols. It was fun! It's still new to me that church can be fun and something to look forward to rather than dread.

It renewed my need to find a "church home", I've heard good things about Summit as well as Hope but haven't made the commitment yet, so if you have a preference, let me know and I'll check it out!

Anyway, hopefully this week will conclude with a little more work getting done by me, and a little less sleeping than before Christmas.

It's been a while

As usual, life got the best of me and blogging fell by the way side.

I finally finished my exams, Hallelujah! Exam week is the worst, I decided that I'd be happier staying in school longer and not taking exams, rather than the current situation.

The past few weeks have been crazy with finals and Christmas coming up and lots of doctors appointments, but now things have calmed down and I'm at home (all of twelve minutes from my apartment at State) for the break. It's really weird sitting down in the evening and not having a list of assignments I need to get done, it's a good feeling, but I can't help but think I'm forgetting something.

I (finally!) met Grace in person yesterday (Grace's Blog) at her MILA party. I won't do it justice by trying to explain it, but look up MILA and see if you think some of the health benefits could go to work in your life. I'm hoping it will help with my fibro and energy levels, others have reported that it does, so fingers crossed! I had a lovely afternoon spent learning about MILA and getting to know Grace better, I also got to meet her baby boy, Jansci, and her parents who were in town visiting. Grace and her husband have a communal living situation with another couple (http://longmirenews.blogspot.com/) who have a baby girl, so I LOVED getting to spend a little bit of time with the little ones. I love babies! They're my absolute favorite at that age, before the real talking and attitude begins :-).

Tonight, I'm going to Lights on the Neuse with my parents, we're hoping it can replace Tanglewood (http://www.forsyth.cc/parks/tanglewood/) for us here in the Triangle now.

 Anyway...here are some pics from Thanksgiving weekend with the fam :-)

The last one is of my sister and her bf, Brittney and Bryan. Sounds good together, no?
:-)