So we were back to our usual schedule(or were we?). Last Sunday Allison repacked her car and headed back to school. She decided to drop one of her accounting classes and retake it in the Winter term. She was not doing well with her previous instructor, so decided to try again with another professor. And she is so glad she did. She had a wonderful 1st week. The class meets every day. Her professor is wonderful and does a terrific job explaining everything. And Allison gets it!

Tom drove to school with Allison to assist her in moving into a new dorm room. She borrowed her roommate's fridge and they picked up a microwave so she could do meals on her own. They also dropped off her scholarship check and signed up for parking as well as checking out an apt/condo for housing next fall. A very productive start to the New Year. Allison had a very successful week and headed home for the weekend. We love having her home.

Scott was also back to school, however he did not quite make a full week. School was closed last Tuesday with a quick snow storm that hit during the morning commute. Tom and I made it to work, but the roads were terrible. Most other days saw school delays. Scott enjoys the shortened school days. But he still has quite a bit of work to squeeze in as they inch closer to midterms. He also managed to spend extra hours with the Robotics team. The group will be competing soon, so they have to decide on a robot design and build it. And they just have two months. Multiple teams come together with their robot designs and build to complete a specific task. So their team has access to the school lab on multiple days/evenings/weekends. They started off with design planning last  weekend however in a board room at one of the coaches  Defense contractor's office. Scott enjoyed eating chips, drinking coffee and planning their design. He is very excited about the whole project.

Tom spent the rest of the week moving back into his newly renovated work office following the fire last month. I was back to work attempting to avoid catching a cold or flu from my patients. I did not do too well as I came away with the start of a cold at the end of the week. I tried to spend some time resting, but I also had some catch up to do after being gone all Christmas break. Allison was happy to share her laundry. I also had some of my parent's laundry to get caught up on. And I needed to drop off their Christmas decorations to their storage unit. Nothing can go smoothly though. I found out their credit card had a hold and an outstanding payment due. I spent some time on the phone trying to straighten things out with the bank and get back into their storage unit. As I mentioned, I have mostly dedicated Fridays to running errands for my parents and taking care of their business. It was business as usual. Fortunately Allison was able to take Scott to the gym for me on Friday night. She also caught a work out for herself. She has been nursing her sore ankle-she fell during ultimate frisbee practice in November and is still recuperating. We had to send her for an xray during Christmas break as the doctor thought her foot could have been broken.  Fortunately no break, but still sore.

I also managed to get a work out in on Friday morning as I returned to my pool exercise class. Then I spent the rest of the day off grocery shopping. Lately it has been all about the football! With the Ravens in the playoffs, we were caught up in Purple Fever. We were invited over to our friends' house for the Saturday night game. So I had some grocery items to pick up for the dinner party. Dinner was great. The game was exciting. But Ravens lost. How sad. Congrats to the Indy Colts and Green Bay Packers. Looking forward to the SuperBowl and Katy Perry! At least we can celebrate the Cotton Bowl win by MSU on New Years Day! And we enjoyed watching Cookie play with our friend's puppy, Ripley. Or at least Ripley play with Cookie during the game.

On Sunday it was time for Allison to head back to school. We packed her up with clean clothes and lots of food. Scott was off to robotics after a full weekend of homework. Tom flew out to Vermont for a work week up north. And I took my parents to church and out to dinner. I am keeping a close eye on my Dad as they try changing his medications since he had been so sleepy lately.

So as I said, back to business as usual.
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PS This was not on my grocery shopping list for the Football game