Happy New Year
New Year’s Eve was a stormy day and night. We were mellow and stayed home all day.
Blue and Heather arrived in the late afternoon to discuss their wedding ceremony. Ian and I will be performing it for them next fall, and they were in town to meet with Tate, who will be doing the photos, and Kimkim, who is their Organizer, I think. It was a nice time talking with them and I think that this wedding is going to be fun.
Although we tried to get Lucas to take a nap, he resisted. It meant that he really stayed up very late even thought we didn’t make it all the way to midnight. The Bennetts had a party in their new home, mere blocks from here. It was mellow and fun. They have so much space now! I’m excited for them. The kids ran around like crazy monkeys. It didn’t really seem to cramp anyone’s style too much, however. We got to see dakini_grl, pirategrl, Bennetts, Tate, Elisa, Matt, Jen, Justin, Monica, Zindelo, and some of Parnasus’s friends, whom we have met once or twice before. We left the party at about 11:30 pm, and Lucas went right to sleep at home as soon as I began to rock him. He was a trooper; I didn’t think he’d last that long. I’m grateful we got him home to bed before a serious, five-alarm meltdown could begin. Ian and I heard the neighbors ringing in the New Year with fireworks, alarms, clackers, and what sounded like gunfire, while snug abed in our own happy nest. We rang in the new year right.
We had considered going to a SF club to rave all night. We were tempted, but it just seemed better to stay home this time. We are leaving in just a few days for Hawaii and I needed to get a bunch of proofreading done.
Today we mostly just lazed around the house. (I worked for the better part of the day proofreading a book about criminal evidence, but I got to do it sitting on the couch in my jammies, in the presence of my family.) The storm outside raged on. Ian and Lucas built an amazing track for Lucas’s Thomas trains. They played legos, too. We played board games that Lucas received for Christmas. A fire merrily burned in the fireplace until we ran out of firelogs. We should have taken the ornaments off the Christmas tree since we’re leaving on Thursday morning, but we didn’t. Basically, it was a beautiful day.
