We will soon be leaving for Mass. As long as it isn’t raining too hard we will be leaving late Friday night. We are really looking forward to having some time off and just getting away. As much as I hate leaving my family for Christmas, I can’t wait to see my other family. It has been a year since we have been up there so we are staying for a whole week! It should be lots of fun. Seth has a zillion cousins and aunts & uncles, so there are always so many fun people to see. I don’t have ANY cousins (I know, everyone is shocked) but I feel like I have made up for it when I married Seth. I don’t even think he could tell you all their names…he has that many.

I hate leaving my kitty cat, Allister, though. But my wonderful neighbors will be taking care of him and I know they will be spoiling him on Christmas day, so I shouldn’t worry about him. But I’m his mommy, so I have to worry. He is such a “needy” cat and when we leave for that long he is EVEN more needy. When we come back from a long trip, he follows us around everywhere and will be sleeping on my neck for the next week to make sure I am not leaving him again.

In other exciting news, I think I might have felt the baby kick, but I’m not sure. I was lying in bed this morning and felt something weird, so I put my hand on my stomach and waited…and then felt it again. Seth says it is just gas, but I’m not so sure. This felt different then anything I have felt before. Seth is a walking pregnancy book. He has read so many. You wouldn’t believe the stash of pregnancy books that is in our house. So from his reading he says I won’t feel the baby till Week 17. But I’m the mommy and I have the baby in my tummy and I know I felt something strange.

Merry Christmas!