A bit of teaser...

Hello!  Just wanted to get caught back up.  As much as I tried to resist the holiday season approaching, it is now here.  I think it was the day after Thanksgiving, at work, as the girls continued to beg me to put up Holiday decor, that I finally came to terms with it.  I just didn't think that Christmas would come up so fast on us after the wedding.  But... it has!

This week is finals week.  Dave finished his tests last night, and was only half-way relieved.  He still has to grade all the final essays from the class that he is TA'ing for, which is about 70 of them. He isn't too stoked about that.  But he is on campus now, working on it, while I enjoy the complete silence of our house.   Yes, that's right, I said SILENCE.  It is very rare, in a house full of 4 grown people, 3 of which are boys, for silence to occur.  During this last term, I had scheduled myself to close twice a week, since that is what was needed for the shop.  I have found that once all the boys leave for work or school, I can watch whatever I want on Netflix, or just sit and wander the internets in silence.  I have found that this is my favorite.  I am TOTALLY aware that one day, whenever that day might come, that there will be little Spackmans running about, and I will miss this time of quiet, where I can blog in peace, to the sound of the clock ticking. So I have to take advantage (the sad truth is... after I finish this entry, I will use the rest of my quiet time before work posting schedules for the rest of December, since I will be gone for 10 days from the shop.)

Anyway, I have been very busy with work.  We have been consistently more busy this week (try over $1300 of coffee sales a day.  Yes, we sell a lot of coffee), which means that less of the side chores get done while I'm there.  And it is exhausting to have to be smiley and nice for 8 hours straight, even to the mean people.  I will be very happy to have some time on vacation, to re-charge my happy customer service battery.

In the mean time, our wedding photographer sent me some pictures to use for our Christmas cards this year (which have now been ordered!!!)  So i figured I would share them with you...  the others will be here soon!

So now... without further ado...

 ... <3