This year was a lot like the couple of years as we had our huge House Party on New Year’s Eve. 😃 😉 Of course, the whole family was invited, but everyone pretty much kept to their own rooms and in front of their own screens. We kept it to “to each his own” for dinner on New Year’s Day, since Mom and Alex had to work on the 1st, but we did go ahead and have New Year’s dinner on Sunday the 2nd instead. We kept it simple with steaks and turkey burgers on the grill, since the weather was nice. Dad did have his black eyed peas for dinner on the 1st to keep up the tradition though.

Sometime after the first week, we finished the Christmas puzzle with the elephant and since Sam and Mom had such a good time, we went to Barnes & Noble and picked up a couple of more puzzles during their BOGO event. The last one was just finished a couple of days ago. Today, the 22nd, we saw our first significant snowfall in about 3 years – about 1/4″ of ice followed by about 4″ of snow. Luckily Dad and Alex had the day off, but Mom did go in at 8am today – unfortunately for her between Covid and the snow, only 3 people showed up this morning. 😓 Dad shoveled the sidewalk and driveway, while Sam found a new and unusual way to clear off the remaining cars.

Hope everyone is having a good start to the new year and we hope this year is better for everyone!