It's been a long time since I sat in my home office on a Saturday morning entering a post on my blog. We have been home from India for over a month now and my husband is still suffering from his intestinal infection. They finally decided to do surgery to relieve the pressure on his bladder. I think he is relieved that, hopefully, it will all be over soon.

    In the month since we've been home we've only had a few days of temperatures above freezing and we've had many snowfalls. Thank goodness the snow amounts were small, usually an inch or less. We did get four inches last week, an ice storm the week before Christmas (enough to close schools the last two days before the holiday break) and a pretty snow on Christmas morning. We have had snow on the ground almost continually which is very unusual and annoying. I should not complain because we have been spared the wollups that other parts of the country are experiencing. At least, so far we have been spared.

    We spent Christmas weekend at home, just the two of us and the dog. I got Pilar a toy she really liked. It actually took her several weeks to finally chew it up (it usually only takes her a couple hours). The first two presents my husband opened were things I bought in India and the third was a video on rail trips I had purchased months before. None of this went over very well (still too sick). Even in his painful state he did have a few things for me to open (he's such a sweetheart). We spent the day watching Christmas movies and I cooked a roast in the crock pot.

    My sister and her husband came in for New Year's weekend. We went to my friend Joe's house for a big party. As usual the hardcore group stayed after midnight and played games until 3 AM. On New Year's Day we went to our other sister's house and played more games. They got a new XBox with the Kinetic Sensor that recognizes you standing in front of it and reacts to your moves. The funniest part is just watching people play it as they are jumping around, kicking, waving their arms wildly. We got some good videos of the kids but they made me promise not to post them on the web (too bad). Maybe this one picture is ok because you can't tell who it is anyway (this way I can find out if they ever actually look at my blog).
    So I have been spending my days at home mostly, waiting on my husband and sorting through the pictures from our India trip. I put together a slide show and am in the last stages of creating a video of the trip. One of the things I love about making trip videos is that it lets me live through the trip again. It really was a fabulous trip (other than my husband's illness).