Call it a cleanse? A purge? Or just a plain FIGHT!

Something extremely odd - almost every year of our marriage, on New Year's Eve Matthew and I have had a "disagreement" of sorts... I can't explain it, and as hard as I try to keep peace, something always goes awry. I can't pin point it on one thing, but I've been thinking about it... as long as the new year starts off right, who cares what happened the year before?! Water under the bridge right? Even if it's just 10 minutes before, it was still a whole year ago. Start fresh! Seriously, though, maybe it's us spewing the previous year's garbage at each other so we can start off anew. Anyway, it's really funny - we always make up afterward ;)

So, Patrick is coloring/drawing up a storm! He's going to be a Hockey-playing Artist Pirate Astronaut who helps sharks, but not the big ones, just the babies. That was his latest update.

Stephen - HALLELUJAH - is growing up! His maturity level has increased even just in the last couple weeks. Seriously, I remember when Patrick got around 4, it was like a switch was flipped, and now I think there's hope the same thing can happen for Stephen! yay!

William is still a professional stander - when the heck is he going to walk? Nobody knows! He's super cute and had an adventure with an infection in his eyelid - so we'll give him a break.

CHRISTMAS was so much fun! But I forgot to take my camera out at all - which is extremely odd for a so-called photographer. ;) I was soaking up the memories in my brain.

Matthew is so good at letting me sleep more, yay! Now that I don't have classes in the evenings, I'm way more rested. Matthew is working for LIME - he's learning how to program apps for the iPhone - we're so excited about this new adventure! It's a career with ACTUAL potential to go somewhere. He's going to get to take Patrick to school on his way to work, so we're happy about that so zombie mom doesn't have to make him tardy every three days.

I'm still going to school full time - mostly online, but one on campus Saturday mornings. I know I'll be struck by lightning this semester so I'll come out of it knowing EXACTLY what I want to be when I grow up, like Patrick the 6 year-old. Something like that. I'm also LOSING WEIGHT. Seriously, I'm video blogging weekly about it on YOUtube and blogging daily at http://amyworkingitout.blogspot.com/ ... if I do this publicly, I think I'll have more success. We'll find out!

Love you all!