Silence

I apologize for the absence these past two weeks, to any who read regularly.

Life has kept me busy. That and a new goal to get my work out of the way during the day so that I'm available to hang out with Josh in the evenings. Really it's been awesome, but it means less internet, which is also good.

I'm working speedily on Guy's birthday present (which is going to be awesome). Christmas presents for some members of my family have not yet been started, but I'm done shopping for my brother and his family, and my sister's son.

We already put up the Christmas tree, which has been such a bright spot. I'm listening to Christmas music right now and I love how cheerful and festive it helps me to feel.

Oh, the other reason I haven't been blogging? I've been running on an average of 6 hours of sleep lately. Some nights I get more, some nights I get less, most nights it's interrupted by nursing Leo. Need to get him out of the habit. Need to get more sleep.

PhD applications are done! That also took a considerable amount of time. The final list:

Stanford
USC
U of Arizona
U of Pennsylvania
Michigan State
UBC in Vancouver
Cornell

Now the ball is in someone else's court, and we're waiting.

Ah! And Leo is walking! Go Leo!

I promise I'll post more pictures soon; they're infinitely more interesting than my ramblings.