Wow! The last several months have flown by! New job, more school, still working in Salt Lake, writing lesson plans, doing homework, correcting homework, etc., etc.! All this culminates to this point which is my two weeks of Christmas vacation. I get to do all the things that I never seem to have a lot of time to do -- like scrub my house from top to bottom. Not exciting, but things I have to do never the less. It is just nice not to have homework looming over my head. Today, I got to babysit my niece Sarah. She's two. She's hilarious. She loves to dance, shimmying her shoulders back and forth. She loves to sing and will sing to anything. She's happy and very particular, in a great comical way. I love her. She makes ME happy. A very fun way to spend a day. We went shopping and finished up all of the things that I had left to do. Shopping in the morning during the week is a whole new experience. Not as many people making the outing less stressful. I just need t...