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New Look! New Year!
Well I liked my cardinal-Christmas motif but with the new year I decided it was time for a new look. This wintery motif was inspired by my current iGoogle homepage color scheme:
With the snow we've gotten here yesterday and today the cold, wintery blues just seem to fit!
New Year's Eve was spent with DD and me organizing & purging her closet, shelves and overall room. It looks WONDERFUL now. I just need to buy some more bins for her shelf. DH watched football, played PS2 2008 Madden NFL game (a Christmas present), and grilling our dinner in the snow! Additionally, I continued with the smooth changeover for the 2008 school year in Homeschool Tracker (see sidebar for link) and finished up my personal binder. (More on that in the future.)
We didn't go anywhere for New Year's Eve so we just had a little wing-ding here at home:
We had bought some crackers, sausage, & sparkling grape juice, pulled out some cheese balls, leftover chocolates, and baked up a few cookies. I also thought to open a little bag of Japanese caramel corn & cheese puffs my Seester had sent us (yum!) Totally nothing fancy, but it did the trick. DD was tickled when I pulled out the blue plastic "goblet" from last New Year's Eve festivities (at the base bowling alley) for her to use. I grabbed two Don Ho bar glasses for DH and I. (Only time I recall we've EVER used those glasses since eating at his restaurant in downtown Honolulu! LOL) The little cymbals monkey and party poppers (also from Japan) finished off the side table, all laid upon a thrifted cloth napkin. Hey, I TOLD you it wasn't fancy!
DD was thrilled to find out we were going to let her stay up until midnight. That was just what she needed to get going. DD is the queen of construction-paper-hats and insisted we all have and wear one. DH fancied his up with Navy insignia and DD added a feather to it. Mine had various foamies stickers (nice to see THAT tote got used ONCE in 2007! )
While waiting for the NYC Times Square ball to drop DD and I put her telescope (a Christmas gift!) together. The weather conditions didn't permit viewing of anything at that time but she was happy to put it together.
Just before 11:00pmCST I called DD and DH downstairs to watch Dick Clark count down the final seconds. (Come to find out DH had already fallen asleep and I had woke him up! LOL) After that DH went back to bed and DD went upstairs to finish watching her movie.
Midnight (CST) rolled around and DD and I watched the fireworks out of Chicago (on the TV screen) to celebrate. I grabbed a Japanese party popper, pulled the string and BANG! (shockwaves ringing my eardrums!) But..... NO CONFETTI!!!!! ***gasp*** We couldn't believe it! Here I'd told DD we'd have to do the party poppers inside so we could vacuum up the mess in the morning instead of having it blowing all over the snow till spring time! Well, drats! No confetti and now I was deaf! DD worried the smoke detector would go off but it wasn't smoky, just SMELLY! (Guess the Japanese use fireworks OUTSIDE! LOL)
DD brushed her teeth and was put to bed. I stayed up for about a hour longer..... went to bed... then spent the NEXT two hours or so trying to fall asleep! *sigh*
Your blog looks beautiful! I have been thinking of changing to a blue, wintery theme, but I don't like blue very much for decorating. I absolutely love the colors you chose - wintery and pretty at the same time!
Your blog is gawgeous dahling! As usual! So glad your break is over...
Sorry about your Japan poppers...you shoulda asked me before. Dad sets up all the fireworks (outside!) every year. It gets so cloudy and smelly..well you know...New Year's in Hawaii!
Hau'oli Makahiki Hou!
I loved your slide show! The hats are all kinds of festive!! And the YUM TRAY~~ a must have! So cute. Thank you so much for all the pictures and slide shows and movies and such you have taken. It means sooo much to me...and really makes being over here (in JAPAN, soooo far away from you guys) just a little bit easier! Love you SEESTER. Have a BLESSED New Year!
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Happy New Year!
~Andrea