It's been a very long time since we have posted anything. Abe has grown so much and is just getting into everything. He also knows when he's NOT supposed to get into something and thinks it's VERY funny when we get after him. Please advise as to proper parenting techniques for such situations. Thanks, Heidi, for the coat and hat that Abe has on in one of these photos. We love them!
David and I are doing really well. The whole parenting thing is ominous, sometimes, but we just trust that God must have known what He was doing when he let us become parents. David finished his first quarter grades, but still has a whole stack of papers to correct on his desk from the start of the second quarter. This year has been a little bit more challenging because of one particular class, but overall it's just teaching as usual. I think I'm finally at a point where I'm enjoying being home and being a mom. Working w/out the benefit of a paycheck really stinks, though. If it weren't for Abe being such a good baby and so darn cute, I don't know what I'd do. Sometimes I do think I'm losing what little I had in this brain of mine. I completely spaced off a friends birthday dinner, and then I almost burned the house down when I forgot about some rice that I was cooking on the stove. I'm not sure how much time the pan was on the burner (on high), but the smoke was thick, and we had some serious smoke smells for about a week afterwards. The pan was a complete loss, with dripping metal oozing out from the seam around the base. I should have taken a photo.