(Belated) Happy New Year!

As I am writing this I can hardly believe that the holidays have come and gone. As we complete the first full week of January I still have the tree up, gifts to put away, and thank you cards to write, and I am falling farther and farther behind. Today I am making a valiant effort to get the ball rolling, and spent over an hour cleaning and reorganizing RP's room in order to accommodate all the new "stuff" she received for Christmas! I am trying to get rid of some of her baby toys in this process as well, but she is having a harder time letting go of them than I am (go figure!).

Christmas with the family was a fantastic four-day adventure of eating, opening presents, and spending quality time with family and friends. RP was apparently a VERY good girl this year, and the "fruits of her labor" are ALL over this house - inside and out! A new bike, outside playhouse, and roller skates were among her many outside toy gifts, and she received dolls, clothes, books, games, and lots of other nice stuff for inside. Santa was unable to accommodate her request for Rafiki and the hyenas from "The Lion King," but made up for it by bringing her a Batman doll, superhero cape, and a construction workbench complete with battery-operated tools! Yes, my "princess" is very much a little tomboy and alternates from being a princess to a superhero to a rock star on any given day!

I'm still not sure where all RP's "loot" is going to go, but I need to get this house back in order FAST because the social worker is coming on the 17th for our two-year post placement visit. WOW. Where has time gone? Has it really already been almost two years, and has it only been two years that RP has been in my life? While I remember the process of the adoption in almost painstaking detail (the good and the bad!) I can hardly remember a time when RP wasn't THE major part of my life.

I hope everyone reading this had an enjoyable holiday and is geared up for an exciting 2012 - I know I am!!!