Everyone who got our Christmas letter knows that we had a trying holiday season.  Like we said in that letter we cherish the lost and will do our best to cherish those that are still with  us more each and every day. We have mementos to Jozie and Chet on the walls with the rest of the family. I finally got off my rump and printed pics of family in big moments and framed and hung them up to show them all off. This has been on my list of To-dos for a while.

This year we are committed to being healthier - already we are juicing veggies again and working out more. We still compost and are going to do a small garden, but I'm going to by a partial share in a local CSA - community support aggriculture - and get the veggies delivered. One of them , for example is $500 for X weeks. Yes that sounds ridiculuous but it comes out to a cooler (12x36in) size box full of veggies a week for $8.

Right now we are recovering from the holidays - still :) While Petey sick, we are now wondering what is wrong with Goose the fat calico cat. The Vet said the hair loss is not from gangster cat fights but from her scratching herself. We've not seen her scratch so we are skeptical. Nevertheless we are giving her the meds etc to see if it helps.

I'm turning in my applications to the 3 nursing programs in the next 2 weeks. I feel like I'm cursing myself by being public about this but oh well.

In February I'm going to Cali to see Kelly for a few days. Her husband is going out of town and we will have a 2 generation girls week - Elsie will be there for every fun filled minute. Then later in the month we had planned on a snowboard trip to Mt Hood, but!!! The west coast is in a record breaking drought and there is no snow on the mountains here. It's worse than NC mountains in march. So, we are looking at fishing in Port Orford for the week. It was 60 today no wonder we have no snow.

As many know we lost out flooring in November and next week we get it back!!!! No more puke/avocado green!!! YAY!!!! The guy is coming to lay the laminate. If we owned the house we'd do it ourselves, but since it is not ours we don't want to have an accident be on our heads.

I have older ones to finish and post but this is my update for the 2014.