The New Year...

Well, I hope everyone had a good New Year's. I can't believe it is 2008. It seems like yesterday we were freaking out about Y2K and here it is eight years later and society has survived, for the most part. Amazing. I bought all that bottled water for nothing. :) Anyway, we had a great Christmas...the best one yet and New Year's was okay. We didn't really do anything this year. We had been visiting family and when we finally got home, all I wanted to do was have a glass of wine and relax, so I had two and really relaxed. We did go onto the porch at midnight and watch our neighbor's fireworks. I really meant to buy some for ourselves, but we just ran out of time. Oh well... In other happenings, Hallie turns 8 next week. She'll be halfway to 16. That's a scary thought. This year she is having two friends spend the night and we're going to Build-A-Bear and Shogun. I'm really looking forward to a birthday celebration I don't have to stress about. Surely it will be easier to keep up with three girls instead of 10, but I may be fooling myself. We'll see. Oh, I'm also taking a Cherokee language class out of Oklahoma that starts next week. I have to take it online since a 10 hour drive wouldn't be very realistic, but I'm looking forward to it. I wish my great grandparents were still alive. We could have some very interesting conversations. Other than that, nothing to report except my usual seasonal blues. Have I ever mentioned I hate January-March? Let's face it...winter sucks. I hate sitting inside all the time. I hate the way everything looks so dead. I also hate freezing my butt off, which is kind of sad since I live in the Southeast and it's not even that cold comparatively speaking. It's not like it's -10 degrees. I could never, ever survive north of the Mason-Dixon line. Well, I better go. Alex just came in with some food. Of course, I have to help her eat it.