Courageous Joy

Day Eleven of Vacation – 31 December 2005

Wow – the year is drawing to a close and so is our vacation time.

We spent today attempting to take this year’s family picture. This took a long, long time. We took 29 picture and then took a Stacia mandated break. We had the kids vote on pictures and we all liked one – except Nolan. Obviously, he was wearing a less than perfect expression in this photo. He asked that we try for a better shot.

Back to the living room and 19 shots and who knows how many minutes later and we have a few more shots to pick from. We are still not sure which photo will win. We all like the one with Nolan’s silly face best of all…but we want to honor his feelings as well. ONE of these pictures will become the new Family Picture hanging on our wall and mailed out in our “After Christmas Cards”. OK - one photo uploaded before blogger tells me that the page isn't available...so I'll post whichever picture we finally choose, later.

We had hoped to make it to the lake and such this afternoon…..but that photo session took much longer than we expected. By the time the session was over I had the raging start to a migraine. Mike and the kids decided to spend the couple of hours they had playing Ultimate Football at the school down the road. I took drugs and slept.

We had all planned to ring in the New Year at a friend’s with a game night. It became apparent that if I hope to be functional tomorrow I need to avoid light, noise and being overly tired tonight. I took more drugs and stayed home. I am going to bed now….and I’ll bring in the New Year in style in the a.m.