I haven't posted here in a while. We are doing fine. Jared is working a lot, 14 or 15 hour days. Kids are great. They are really excited about Christmas. Things are pretty much the same with me.

The week before Thanksgiving, Snowflake (one of our pet rats) got a huge abscess on her abdomen. It was quite gross. The vet lanced the abscess and got it cleaned out good. She was put under anesthesia and everything. We did 10 days of antibiotics after the procedure to make sure the infection didn't return. She is doing very well now. She did get terribly skinny afterwards, so we feed her Ensure. That fattened her back up. Our other rat (Flower) never had any problems.

Last week we bought a new computer. It currently has windows XP media center, but it came with a free upgrade to Windows Vista when it comes out next your. I like my new computer. It felt good getting rid of that old computer.