February Update

This month is going to be very busy. Craig is getting surgery on his wrist February 8 to remove remnants of a ganglion cyst. I say "remnants" because the doctor aspirated it about two weeks ago, and the bump got very mushy and the pain lessened considerably. But since the ganglion tissue and the sac are still in there, the chances of it coming back are very high. So surgery is still on.

He will be off work for three weeks and during this time his wrist will be wrapped and bent forward. This means he won't be able to play with Gabriel hardly at all and won't be able to watch him alone for very long. This also means that meals will be VERY simple during this time; basically anything that can microwaved or prepped very quickly and be placed into the oven. You veteran mamas know that it is hard to do high maintenance cooking with a toddler that wants to be up under you all the time.

I also haven't written on my Cafe´au lait blog in AGES...I am working on a book review of Push by Sapphire, better known as Precious the Movie, OR better know in Carisa's head as The Movie Where Black Women are Depicted as Depraved and Insane...can you tell I didn't like the book or the movie? I'll post it when I complete it.

Oh, here are the promised Christmas pics! Just a sample, it's not all the pics I took.




William eating scones I made Christmas morning.











We got my mom some butterfly measuring spoons.


My mom got me this cool hat.


I got Craig the new Alicia Keys CD.