Feliz 2009!

Happy New Year!

I don't think I have ever stayed up past midnight for as many nights straight as I have since New Year's eve. This from me, who would love nothing more than to be asleep by nine p.m. any day of the week. Seriously, when I crawl under the covers after the kids are all tucked in I sigh loudly aaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh.

So, it was New Year's eve that kept me up of course and then prepping for Tony's big day, then the actual big day. I don't know what it is that is keeping me up so late now, other than a little excessive and pointless wakefulness. Pointless, because we have had four kids sleeping through the night [thank you very very much] for months now. What a blessing that is, for over ten years a dream unrealized...the promise of a full and good night's sleep. And, finally after so much anticipation, a reality. With the exception of the last several days!

For Tony's big birthday, yeah, we partied like rockstars [the non explicit version], well, not really but we did have a lot of fun, complete with dancing and singing and cake and, thanks to Junior G, Venezuelan rum. Tony had a really good birthday. See for yourself!

Hmmmm, let me think here, someone else close to me is having a very big, very 40th birthday very soon. Oh what pleasure it is to have my sister so close to my own age, ah, what sweet sweetness. Barely sixteen months apart, we're practically twins. Aaaaahh how lovely. Ha!


A funny sidebar, you know the countdown to digital TV is all you hear when you turn on the television, right? Well, Renee's BIG birthday is on the same day as the big SWITCH to digital. She tells me, "I can't believe that every time I walk past the TV, they have to tell me EXACTLY how many days until I am 40!" Is that hilarious? I love you sis. How many more days now?

With the holidays passed and the new year underway, I guess it's back to our regularly scheduled programming now. Regular life resumes, and so does Greys Anatomy! I still have to take down the Christmas tree, but maybe it will wait a few more days. I hate to see it go away for almost a year. I think I will have to get a smaller lighted tree to keep in the living room for the rest of the year so I won't miss it so much.

I am tired. Sometimes, I really wish I were a napper.