Last Post of '08

This will be the last post of 2008 and is notably less intense than my last entry.

After arriving home safe and healthy from Children's Hospital, Johan promptly got the stomach flu. So between stress and sleep deprivation early in the week and near-constant changing of clothes due to vomit in the latter half of the week, combined with trying to get my affairs at work in order for my absence, it's been an awesome several days.

But the light at the end of this busy, tired, stressful, vomit-stained tunnel is 2 weeks in the Dominican Republic, beginning Monday. It's bizarre that I haven't been to the DR since 2004, since I spent the early 2000s doing anything I could to spend every holiday and school vacation there. It will be great to be back; see Eduardo's family and enjoy watching them meet Johan; soak up some rays; and swig down some ron with my girls. (Sarah and Sylia will be joining us in Santo Domingo December 15-23.) Sweet.

Johan and I arrive back in Minnesota late on New Years Eve. Like, at 11:55 p.m. They better have champagne at the baggage claim and a free sober cab to bring us home.

For now, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year (yeah, I failed again to get my act together in time to have holiday cards prepared and sent). Eduardo told me to promise my readership an early 2009 greeting complete with a picture of Johan riding a donkey. Like the Baby Jesus. Or the wise men, or whatever. I haven't been to church in awhile...who rode a donkey? Oh yeah, Johan.

Peace out and hasta 2009.