Christmas and New Years

We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year!

My parents arrived in town on Christmas day and we had 2 weeks of fun. We had our Christmas goose (those things are tough!!) on the 26th and then I had 2 weeks of not cooking dinner or doing chores. They left yesterday and we were SO sad to see them go. The girls got to go to the movie theater for the first time with Grandpa, Carmen learned to play ring-around-the-rosy, Tihi spent one whole afternoon with Grandpa at the library (I would never stay as long), Carmen spent many hours outside walking around with Grandpa (I would again never spend as long :)), we opened gifts on New Years Day again, Bitsu learned to sew a quilted pillow, Turi sewed more doll pants from a pattern with my mom (I hate sewing :)), we lived through a snowstorm, and overall we had a blast. We were so thankful for them being here. I'm not sure what we're going to do for meals now though...

On a different note, I finally had my MRI and follow-up appointment for my knee. I partially tore my ACL and both Menisci. I will be going in for surgery on the 21st. Sad but glad that I am in a place where I have good medical care to get it taken care of.

Zoya is 1 month old today!! I cannot believe how fast the time went. She just went through her first growth spurt and is out of her NB clothes and into 0-3m. Crazy how much bigger she's gotten in a week. And I went for my first jog today. I can't say it was a run; I wasn't moving that fast :).