It is important to me for Shane to feel like he hasn't missed anything. Obviously he and I both know he's missed a lot, but if I can at least take pictures of Shelton every day, he can see every outfit, new facial expression, new toy, new food, etc. When he comes home, my plan is for him to easily transition back into the AH-mazing daddy he was the first few weeks of Shelton's life. So, since he sees almost everything on Facebook, I hope he comes home and is like, "So, he eats bananas, apples and pears...he hates sweet potatoes...he loves his exersaucer...he loves to be tickled...he likes to watch Mickey Mouse Clubhouse." Easy Peasy! I don't doubt for a second that this homecoming is going to shake our little routine we have going. But I think it's just as important to kind of "start over", for lack of a better phrase, with a new family routine we can all get used to. For example, Shane keeps the TV volume on 30 and I appreciate it on 13...Ok, so he's a little hard of hearing in his left ear. I can get used to doing simple sign language from the kitchen again. It may interrupt Shelton's nice 8pm, all is quiet because mommy is exhausted and going to bed too, bedtime. So it will definitely be interesting to see our worlds come together and hopefully settle into a normal routine. For a little while anway! 
I have a had a hard time getting past the fact that he was in the desert for Christmas. I was very happy to hear he ate ham. I was not excited to hear he ate goat. Yuck! So I have planned Operation Surprise Christmas. How fun does that sound?! I wrapped presents and decorated our tree yesterday. I don't care if it's February. I am fully in the Christmas spirit again. It's to the point that I'm annoyed that Wal-Mart doesn't already have their Christmas stuff out for 2012. It's also to the point that I have been humming, whistling and full-on singing Feliz Navidad whilst doing household chores. OSC will fuse a few of the broken pieces of my heart back together. I hope one day Shelton will look back at the pictures and feel the love we have for him. I hope he will know that we don't go by a calendar, we can't always plan things, we may not always be together...but we don't need to. We can have Christmas in February and Halloween every Friday night. Any time we spend together as a family, I vow, will be monumental. Feliz Navidad folks!
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