Happy New Year!

We headed down to Florida to spend the Christmas holidays with our loved ones. I ran out of the office with my hair on fire on Wednesday and high tailed down to see my in-laws before we took off for Florida bright and early on Christmas Eve. We arrived in time for our dinner reservations and had a delightful dinner at Flying Fish Cafe.

Christmas day we were on a very lazy schedule. Actually, we didn't really have a schedule. We just wandered around to do our thing and then headed to our Christmas meal at Fulton Crab House at Downtown Disney. Matthew enjoyed the crab legs and prime rib as a way to ear mark the holidays. Tony and I were a bit more conservative with our consumption of food.

May and the kids came down to join us and we marked the reunion with a fabulous dinner at California Grill. Good food, good company and most of all, a fabulous view of the fireworks from the veranda.

Sandi, Jeff and Nicholas arrived on Monday and our clan was complete. Four kids, six adults and lots of chattering. Like Noah's Ark, the kids paired up together and were joined at the hip. It's pretty funny to watch their interactions. The weather has been cooperating though in the beginning, it was kind of weird. The weather was pretty cold even for this part of Florida. It felt as if we never left Connecticut.

We're going to spend our last day together and close out the year with dinner at The Wave and then watch the fireworks before we pack up our circus and return to our homes tomorrow.

Wishing all our friends and loved ones, a very Happy New Year. May it be filled with peace, love, joy and happiness.

More snow........ah crap!

Well, we're about to get dumped on with another ton of snow. What the hell? It's not even officially winter yet and they're projecting 8 to 12 inches. Okay, I hear you, "But it's almost Christmas. Don't you want a white Christmas?" No, and do you know why? Because I'll have to shovel the crap. My driveway is 125 feet long and down hill. Do you know how hard it is to shovel that much snow? Okay, going down is easy but coming back is a whole different story. "Get a snow thrower" you say, got one. "Get a bigger one", it's pretty damn big.

Boy I must be getting old. When I was my sons age I loved the stuff. I would play in the snow all day making forts, having snow ball fights and making snow men until my fingers froze, notice that shoveling was not one of the things I did as a kid, that duty was left for my father who, by the way, HATED SNOW. I know I shouldn't complain. Susan helps me shovel and Matthew.... well, he plays video games. I'm hoping that this is the only snow storm we get in the coming months. Hopefully, it's the only snow we get, period! I can dream can't I? In the meantime, I will be out there freezing my butt off while shoveling and salting the driveway.

Now I know why old people move to Florida.










Merry Christmas....