family fun

Spring break has arrived, and what could make for a better vacation than a visit from your little sister? My "baby" sister Brittany is up for a visit from Florida, and we are having a wonderful time. I haven't seen Brit in almost three years, which boggles my mind. I'm very happy that she was willing to travel up here to see us, even as she is about to become a mommy. I think she is going to be a wonderful mother, and we've spent a lot of time so far in her visit talking about her perspective on parenting. I'm very proud of her, and I seriously love being an auntie.

We had a nice visit with our aunts and uncles, long overdue. Ray pulled out some slides, and we took a little walk down memory lane. It was so strange to see some of the pictures in the slideshow. They were all quite old, taken long before my sisters were born, but there were still many things that I remembered. The old brown chair my great-grandmother always sat in, the huge television set at my grandfathers house, Christmas when I was a toddler... it was very surreal. Mike was trying to be cool, as usual, and failing, as usual.

I have a lot of work to catch up on this week. I need to catch up on my statistics homework, review specific aims for my classmates, read a lot, and start working on my modeling project. I'm starting to formulate some ideas, but I really need to sit down and chart it out.