It's a very happy new year!

We had a great Christmas! 12 adults and 4 tots for the seven seafoods on Christmas Eve at our place and a nice get together at my brother's on the big day. Santa showed up, made my niece cry, and beat a hasty exit.

New Year's was spent up in Maine with N here and the four guys snowboarding everyday; big pot of stew, some rib eyes, a birthday dinner for J, chicken and dumplings and we came home to a broken furnace! Yup, home at 10pm to a house at 50 degrees. We all piled into the master with a space heater, which got up to a toasty 57.

As for Little Miss D, we await news of her court date which better come soon... so we can turn this:


into this!