Hi family, Well, I've been pretty, pretty quiet this past holiday season. SICK!...that's what I was... just plain SICK! The flu kicked me from one end of the house to the other and started on Christmas Eve (ew!) ~ one of my busiest days of the year. What a mess. I'm lucky I got our Christmas online when I did! ...And guess what? I got it AGAIN! Yep! It's begun settling in on me again ... going from my son to me the first time, then back to my son and me again. :( This isn't fun. lol Onto business ... First off, I hope everyone's holdays were a LOT more healthy than ours! I also hope everyone got to see the presents under our Christmas tree. I've closed down the Christmas pages, set up our winter front at the Homestead, and will begin storing the gifts today. As quiet as I've been, did anyone notice? Sometime over the holidays we passed the 50,000 mark on our counter! Can you believe it? I hope, by the end of this year, our counter will have crossed the 75,000 mark. And yes, it's very possible for us. If I have the time, I plan to do some work on the Cottage. I want to revamp the front ~ and possibly the entire layout. So, if you should have trouble accessing those pages, it's probably because I'm in there piddling around. :) Our groups have been waaaay too quiet! We need to get things cranking again. C'mon family, talk to me ... who's looking for who now? I hope you're all having just a FANTASTIC Friday! :) Colleen