No Snow Yet?

As I was moving some of my posts from my hosted server over here to WordPress, it occurred to me that we really haven’t seen much snow this year.  December 2009 and February 2010 brought us three major blizzards, dumping a combined total of over 5 feet of snow on us out here in cow country.  But we’ve pretty much nothing so far this year.  Amazing how much the weather can change.

Mommy Diary: New Years Eve 2011

My wish came true last year; we became parents in 2011.  It’s been a wonderful and amazing experience.  One of the interesting things that we’ve noticed is that a large part of our circle of friends have never had kids, so it can often be interesting trying to hang with our peeps just like old times.  Last night, we went to the same New Years Eve party that we’ve gone to for the past 9 years.  It went sortof like this:

• 5:30am:  Baby wakes up and demands food and play time.  Will this be a good day, or a bad day?  Should we forget about the party?
• 12:45pm:  Take the baby out to run some errands and for a nap in the car.
• 3:00pm:  Re-stock the diaper bag, make up four bottles, and select which baby gear is going with us.
• 3:30pm:  Mutually agree that we are absolutely not staying the night.
• 5:30pm:  Are we sure we don’t want the pack-and-play?  There’s no way she’ll sleep in it, so no point in taking it.
• 5:50pm:  Hit the road about 20 minutes later than we had planned.  And yet, we’re still the first to arrive.
• 6:10pm:  Take turns occupy baby with toys/trying to keep her from taking everything off of our hosts tables, and mingling with our friends.
• 7:50pm:  Explain for the fourth time that yes we really do need to leave because the baby is already an hour and twenty minutes past the bedtime that SHE likes and will rapidly turn into a nightmare if we don’t get her home.
• 8:15pm:  Baby goes right to sleep in her crib.
• 8:20pm:  Mommy starts cooking dinner.
• 9:15pm:  Mommy and Daddy eat dinner & have dessert.
• 10:20pm:  Absolutely NO WAY we’re making it to midnight this year.  Champagne toast and off to bed because 5:30am comes early.

Not the typical fabulous overnight food, drinks, and fireworks extravaganza that we are used to, but that was totally ok with us.