IRS Quote

Did you ever notice, when you put "The" and "IRS" together it spells "Theirs"?

~ Anonymous

Back

We are back home from our vacation. We arrived home on Sunday and then I got sick Sunday night/Monday morning with the virus Mihaela had. I called in sick to work on Monday, which I hated to do. I felt bad calling in sick after a two week vacation; how does that look to my employeer?

Anyway, went back to work today and spent the day catching up. I had 73 e-mails requiring action, 13 voicemails demanding attention, and 6 notes that needed to be responded to. I got through all the voicemails, the notes, and about 30 of the emails. I will finish responding to the other 43 tomorrow and hopefully be caught up.

I will be extremely busy for the next two weeks though, because I have agreed to write a little app for my brother's company that they want by Jan. 15. Also, I have to write several small modules for one of my clients on my side business by the middle of the month. I sure hope I will be able to get everything done!

"Blog" not in Blogger dictionary

I typed the word 'blog' in my last post. When I spell-checked using Blogger's spell-check feature, it flagged the word 'blog' as misspelled. It also just flagged Blogger in this post. If I were in charge, I think I would make sure those words were in my dictionary.

Posting over the Holiday

Needless to say, I have been lax posting over the holiday. This is because in my haste to leave work on the 23rd, I inadvertently left the power cord to my laptop at the office. This has caused me great consternation as I have had very limited access to the internet and have not been able to check my email regularly, read the news sites, work on some projects, or blog. Erin has been quite pleased because it has caused me to spend more time with the family.

Mihaela has been a daddy's girl the past two weeks. This means that anytime I am in a room, I must be holding her or playing with her. No one else will do. As long as she doesn't see me, she will play and let others hold her. She has been sick the past two days.

When she woke up yesterday, I picked her up out of her bed and she vomited on me. I had to get Erin to help me and we cleaned her up. Then we fed her breakfast and she wouldn't eat. So Erin decided to give her a bottle. She ate a couple of ounces and then was done. Erin sat her up and Mihaela vomited all over Erin. We cleaned her up again. We didn't feed her again until dinner time, but gave her lots of water to drink. When we fed her dinner, she didn't throw up, so we thought she was better.

Then, this morning I got her out of bed and took her to play. About 20 minutes after waking up she exploded with diarrhea. I had to wake Erin up to help me clean her up. We bathed her and fed her. She had another episode when she awoke from her morning nap. She got another bath. Poor baby.

There is really good news though. Mihaela officially crawled for the first time today. She has been kind of scooting and wobbling her way to where she wants to go, but has not crawled. She has been very close by leaning forward and rocking back and forth, but not crawling. Well, today she just crawled. We are excited.

Anyway, our current plan is to leave from my parents home tomorrow morning and get back to real life on Monday.

Happy New Year

Well, it is the new year. Last year was a great year for Erin and me since we adopted Mihaela this year. Things are going great for us. We have a baby, are both satisfied with our work, attend a great church, and participate in a wonderful small group. Our families are all healthy and doing well. God has truly blessed us this past year and we give Him thanks for His bounty.

I hope your 2005 is as much a blessing to you as our 2004 has been to us.