New Year's Eve

Last year for New Year's Eve, my friend, Kellie, had a bunch of families over for the night. It was like one big family sleep over. It was a lot of fun. (OK, maybe it wasn't like going to a club when I was in my 20s, but times change. What else are we supposed to do with 2 little ones?) We did have fun when the kiddies went to bed, and we hung out drinking wine to the wee hours of the night. This year, Kellie was hosting the party again. It was going to be a bit trickier this year as we now have 2 children, so that is twice as much stuff. Add the fact that one is a newborn and not sleeping through the night, and it does get a bit trickier. However, Kellie is a good friend of mine, and I liked those NYE plans better than the alternative. Unfortunately, it is a 3 hour drive, it is winter, and the weather didn't cooperate. So, we didn't make it to Pennsylvania. Damn Mother Nature!


The alternate plans were not too exciting. Yet as I mentioned before, when you have a 2 year old and a newborn, you really can't expect a "night to remember". After we ate dinner, we went over to Keith's parent's house where his aunt and uncle were staying as well as cousin and her baby. We put Joshua into his pjs, and Josh and his cousin, Dustin, played together. Well, as much as "together" can be for their age. What was really amazing was that Joshua stayed up until midnight, and he watched the ball drop. You would think by 10pm we would have a miserable, cranky 2 year old on our hands. Nope. Joshua was loving it. He was an absolute angel. It could have been 2pm in the afternoon for the way he was acting. I was really surprised. By staying up so late I was hoping that he would possibly sleep in a little bit. Not really. He was up at 8am. Joshua was also his usual self, so having him stay up late this one night didn't really affect him. I guess we were lucky. Some other kids are on very strict schedules and there is no way they would have acted like that. Lucky me, I guess.



Happy 2010! Wishing all of my readers a happy and healthy new year.