Team Anders

Hello my beloved blogosphere, oh how I've missed you! It's been two weeks since I last chronicled the Team Anders' happenings but it feels like a month! Lots has happened here so let me catch you all up... As I mentioned in my sugar-laced post  from the 18th, the Team has uprooted ourselves from Reading and moved to Hanscom AFB. We enlisted the help of our absolutely wonderful friends to help us move on Friday the 23rd and, after my mom's helpful but WAY too short visit, I'm happy to report that the Team is settled! Both Jace and I feel a little bit more like we actually have a home here now. The space is amazing and we're both so excited to have a yard for the little guy ( and girl )! Here's our new pad...Take note of the incredibly festive decorations on our front porch. Those, my friends, are "Santa Bullets" These things are so dang cute they needed their own close up. Vintage Tomlinson family decorations that I hijacked years ago :...

Five full work days sure makes for a long week, sheesh! Coming back from Thanksgiving is always tough - but here are a few things that helped me power through the week... #1.  Authorization to blast my Christmas music!!!! Jace (a.k.a and to be referred to during the entire month of December as bah humbug (BH)) has a pretty strict December 1st Christmas music start policy so I am so very joyful once the 1st rolls around. The X-mas tunes make me feel connected to my family and I look forward to breaking them out every year (I'd easily play them all year long). I can close my eyes and remember the cold Illinois winter and walking into the house to see our festive tree covered in lights and ornaments from both Jeff's and my adventures in school art projects. The fireplace is crackling, my Dad is rockin' his Santa hat and watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with Jeff and Mom's baking some cookies she bought from the latest school fundraiser (like mother, lik...