Life!!! Whewww . I just have not had time to blog. My last blog was in November, I think. Here are some of the reasons why I have not blogged, and some of these reasons will have a separate blog as part of my plan to catch up: On December 13 th , we lost my mom's brother, Uncle Mark. He lived next door to me, and was one of the kindest people I knew. I loved his dry sense of humor because he always made me laugh. He had a heart attack, and left behind his son, daughter, wife, and twin grand babies who are just about Ronin's age. It was a devastating loss to our whole family. He was only 54. Our Christmas was different this year. Lisa was in the hospital, so we were back and forth to see her. It was also the first year in my life that I did not spend the night with my parents and sister on Christmas Eve. Already emotional, I was pretty much a wreck. Overall, it went really well. But I was still sad about changing that. I started taking psychology classes through the doctoral p...