It's been awhile...

YES... yes... I know.  I've been a little busy.

I'll be doing two posts, hopefully that's all.

I got to take a 2 week holiday to Texas that was just wonderful.

Instead of telling you all the details, I'll just say that:

It was great to spend time with ALL of my family.  There were a lot of laughs, memories made and good times had.

It was GREAT to see friends, to see my house! To see College Station!  I love that even over the 1500 miles that I am from some of the dearest people in my life - the ties have only strengthened upon me moving up here.  Relationships I thought that would suffer have not and relationships that I thought would remain the same have indeed grown stronger.  Family & Friends.  I'm so thankful for that.

I made it back to DC on January 5th and have been going strong since - not wasting one day...including a visit to The Kennedy Center, which was just incredible - and I plan to go back, many more times before I move!

I wanted to keep it short and sweet - I'll be re-capping the year here next.