tis the season

as ascher's first Christmas approaches, we have to begin considering our traditions. what traditions do we want to "borrow" from our families and what traditions do we want to ditch?

we made the decision to stay home this year and spend Christmas day at our house. we are incredibly fortunate to still be able to spend the day with family...jeff's parents will join us to celebrate! it was important to us to stay home and rest after such an incredibly busy year! also, in the four and a half years jeff and i have been together, we've traveled every year! we've never spent a Christmas in our own home. the travel has never bothered us (obviously, or we wouldn't have done it)...we love spending time with our families. but, i swore that this year, Christmas breakfast wouldn't be purchased at a McDonald's in a truck stop! don't laugh...it's been done. rest assured, there is nothing more classy than an egg mcmuffin to celebrate the season!

i wish i could say that our stockings were hung from the chimney with care, but they have yet to be hung. things have been busy and obviously, jeff and i still aren't adept at multi-tasking! we're still learning and adapting to parenthood (at five and a half months, there is still so much to learn!) and getting the decorations and the tree up has been put on the back burner! time to get in the holiday spirit and show ash what the season is all about!

so, yeah, it's been a while...

you know that promise that jeff and i made to blog on a (somewhat) regular basis and at the very least post a letter to the bugga once a month? fail. fail miserably. yeah, we suck. how sad is it that i couldn't even write something once a month? very, very sad.

i have written a thousand posts in my head, but have yet to type one out. which is frustrating because there is so much that i want to remember. i don't want to forget a single thing about ascher as he grows up.

i want to always remember the smell when he's out of the bath and slathered in burt's bee's lotion. i want to remember the way his hair has been sprouting and not a single hair lays down...literally, it all stands up at the back of his head. i want to engrave in my memory the way he smiles at us in the mornings when we go to get him out of his crib (and how i sing to him every morning, "good morning, good morning, good morning to you."). i never want to lose the feeling of him holding my face with his chubby hands and giving me "kisses." i don't want to lose the mental image of him laying on the changing table and laughing at simple pleasure of getting his toes.

jeff and i have been truly blessed. ascher is such a happy, amazing child. he smiles constantly and loves to be on the go. seeing that grin makes every day so easy. he's incredibly vocal and has an ever-increasing "vocabulary."

changes are in the air...i'm heading back to work and ash is going to daycare. i think it's a good time for him to transition him. am i going to miss him? terribly so. i will miss spending our days together. i will miss him napping on my chest. i know that daycare won't change the bond that i have with him, but it's still going to be difficult not to have him with me!

i plan on making a true effort on the blogging front. bear with me...