Seriously, where have I been for the past month??  My poor blog has been neglected!  Between FRG responsibilities, fundraisers, packing to be gone for 3 months, traveling over 1000 miles, Thanksgiving, a recent bout with the flu and taking care of 2 little girls, I guess my days have been full!  Not only have I neglected the blog, I haven't taken as many pictures since Chad left.  Even over Thanksgiving, I only took a few pictures!  I promise to do better over Christmas!   I do have a few pictures to share... Our FRG put together stockings for the guys in our unit.  I had this great idea that all the kids could decorate the cookies while we  stuffed stockings...yeah 4 kids under 5 didn't lend themselves to much unsupervised decorating!  So...I took most of them home to decorate.  Addison was a big helper though!  She only licked a few. ;)  I got pretty corny with the decor by the last batch - red and white for CAV! :)  ...

I was geared up to write this post tonight, but bedtime took the wind out of my sails!  Addison has been quite a handful the past week and needless to say she had an emotional moment tonight.  Poor kid.  She was pretty tired from not taking a nap today and had a hard time going to sleep.  I went in to check on her and she was clutching her new Build a Bear and playing Chad's voice over and and over.  She was bawling.  What do you say to a 3 year old when, through tears she asks if Daddy is going to be gone a long, long, long time or why he had to go?  I know it will help when Chad is in a more predictable schedule and she can see him on the computer.  Blackberry messenger right now just doesn't do much for little ones.  Moving on... I might as well sign my friend Regan's name to this post because it is what she did to give ideas of what to send to her husband.  Some of the pictures are even hers! :)  I wish I could give you a lon...