Who thought the end of the semester would be as crazy as it was.  I knew going into seminary life was going to be crazier with a family, working as much as I do and wanting to have some personal time.  But this has been almost the craziness as it has been.  Thursday before finals week my daughter came down with a lung infection.  She had to be put on a nebulizer and we had to give her a treatment every 3-4 hours.  Needless to say that was very time consuming as each treatment took 15-20 min to give.  Over the weekend she did not get much better, in fact she got worse.  So I kept her home and took her to the doctor’s on Monday (the day a paper was due) and she had a double ear infection as well!! Poor girl!

I tried to finish my prison ministry paper between naps and nebulizer treatments.  Tuesday was better with her and Wednesday was my last swimming class to teach and I had to work.  Which left me on Thursday with two papers to finish. I finally got the last one done today.  A day late but I felt it was an okay paper.

I have one more paper to finish and then I will finally be done with the semester.  I should be done with everything by now but with the craziness I was granted a few days extra to get done.

There are still Christmas presents to buy and holiday cheer to muster up.  This year has been the first year where I felt so unchristmasy it is crazy.  I hope next week I can get in the holiday spirit some more.

We will be leaving on the 25th for New Hampshire.  We will spend a few days visiting my wife’s side of the family and then we will travel to Vermont to visit mine.  I hope to see some friends over New Year’s but we will see.  No plans as of yet.

I don’t have a class until the 21st of January.  So three weeks where I will be “free.”  I must be careful because my “free” time seems like the most hectic for me.

I have never gotten into the New Year’s Resolutions per se, but I am going to be true to my 100 things to do before I die list and pick 5 to accomplish.  The other thing I want to do is to take more pictures.  I am thinking about starting a photo blog.  I think that would be pretty fun.  I really would like to get into taking pictures some more. I might even try dig some old pictures out and post them.

Off to dinner, Franks and beans tonight! mmmmm