The Texas Teels

just wanted to check in and say hello to everyone who's visiting from our christmas cards!
i started this little blog last year at this time as a way of documenting a huge transition that was taking place in our lives, and to give my family a place(since i gave up social media!) to see how fast the kids are growing! (even though we facetime a bajillion times a week)

it's been quite a year, and our time here has only just begun!

anyway, we made it back from texas in a much less dramatic way than we got there.
more people ended up sick, including my sister (who i only got to see for a whole 4 hours the whole time i was in texas😭). it wasn't the week of perfection i had expected to have, but we got to spend lots of time with family, and that made it all worth it. and i kinda loved that i got to take care of my parents for a change... they took care of me, and my kids, while we were disposed, and i got to return the favor. serving them was a blessing.

and let's also address the elephant in the room.... IT'S DECEMBER! birthday month! christmas! back to texas! i can't believe it's already my favorite month of the year. i'm hoping the days flow by like molasses so that i can savor them completely. i read somewhere that as parents we only get approx 18 christmases with our babies living in our homes... and that hit me like a gut punch. as if i needed another reason to be the crazy christmas lady, my status just upgraded to the maximum level of crazy possible. 🎄

if you're new here, (basically anyone besides my parents and sister.... also, HI AUNT JOAN!), thanks for taking a minute to read my run on sentences and overly-punctuated and always lowercase ramblings. if you like to hear silly stories about the things that come out of the mouth of sassy 4 year olds, or see pictures of the cutest kids that ever lived, or you're curious about what life is like in the metropolis (ha.) that is bakersfield, california, you found the right spot!