Happy December!

[fullygoldy]

Wow, I can't believe it's been a year since we started worrying about B's health.  I can't believe it's only Dec. first either, because it feels like we're much deeper into the holiday season than the calendar says, even though we don't really have any holiday plans to speak of.  I also can't believe I totally blanked on sending best wishes to all my November birthday friends.  Happy belated birthday, November-heads!  I love you!  There are a couple of December birthdays coming up too, and hopefully I'll do a little better with the timing for them ;)

I'm still loving the new kitchen, even more now that the floor outlets are wired, and my goal is to get the cabinet doors painted this weekend.  Maybe they'll get hung back up too...  A good christmas present to myself would be to get the remaining kitchen work finished.  It's all finishing details now.  Paint and paneling and finding the right baskets for the cubbies, stuff like that.

Currently, I'm sitting here worrying about Mavis, because she's driving herself to school in the snow.  The plows haven't been to our neighborhood yet, because it's still snowing, so it's going to be a bit trickier than she is used to.  We had a chat about being careful and taking it slower, and steering through slides before she left.  She's got to learn to do it sometime, right?  And this is why we got Subaruby, that all-wheel drive is supposed to make these lessons go a bit more smoothly than they would in some other car.  But I wish I had thought to say "call me when you get there."  I don't want to call her and distract her from driving if she isn't there yet, but I want to know she's okay. ::sigh::  Rupert chose to ride the bus this morning - he prefers being able to hang with his buds before school, so I know he's probably safe and warm by now.