Winter Break

I am loving winter break. Loving it!! Dakota just returned to work yesterday for the first time in twelve days. Twelve days! I can't remember the last time we had twelve days in a row to spend together - and as a family. It's been heaven! Better than I ever dreamed it would be. I know I haven't blogged in just about forever but honestly, when it comes right down to it, I'd much rather spend time with Dakota than sit at the computer blogging. Forgive me, dear readers, but when it comes to Dakota or you...well...Dakota wins. But I know you all understand. :) Tough choice - curled up on the couch, catching up with my wife as we watch the fire burning in the fire place or sitting in this not-really-all-that-comfortable chair blogging....hmmmm...which would you choose? :) :)

We have done so much in the couple of weeks but for the life of me, I can't think of much to share with you. I did end up buying a new computer which has been a source of a few problems (MandM, you asked about Vista....I think I would opt to have the new computer loaded with XP. I'm just saying.....). ToonTown still managed to give us grief but I think we (well...my brother actually) tracked down the problem to our old modem. We now have a new one from the cable company and all appears to be working well. Of course, I haven't yet reconnected the router. If it starts to give us trouble after I do that, clearly it will be a router issue. *sigh* Have I mentioned that I'm not so much into technology troubleshooting? I jsut want things to work. Is that so much to ask?

But here is something; I was moaning to my brother about how we were having trouble with the new system and all that Disney said we needed to do to make the game work on the brand new computer and going over the trouble we had on the old CPU when he suggested I bring up the old CPU when we visited the next day. Now here is something I didn't know about my brother - he is a Jack of All Trades! Within an hour he had the old computer fixed, updated and running like new. LIKE NEW!! Then he also fixed, updated, upgraded and had my laptop running like new. And both ran ToonTown perfectly! He then provided us with all the equipment necessary to hook both CPU's to the monitor, keyboard and mouse which will allow us to toggle back and forth between the CPU's giving us a child-friendly computer and a "no kids allowed" computer. How totally cool is that??? My brother rocks! :)

In other news - the kids both have horrible colds. Kelton, having an immune system of steel, is doing ok. The cough is nasty but otherwise, he is doing ok. Sadly, it knocked Kaylen on her cute little butt. In between her fever and throwing up illness, she had about 12 hours of feeling well. Poor little girl. Yesterday she barely moved off the couch - today she is feeling a bit better though still clearly not well. Hopefully tomorrow we will see even more improvement.

And when I have time I fully intend of downloading my photos from my camera. It's hard to believe but I haven't done that yet. I know. I'm as shocked as you. :)