A Very Homely New Year

This New Year's Eve I will be spending at home for a few reasons:

1. I am sick. I do not sound as much like a frog as I did yesterday, but my nose is leaking like a straw roof in a hurricane and my nostrils are raw from blowing.

2. Mia is sick. She most likely has the same thing I do, and whenever she sees me coming toward her with a tissue she runs away screaming "NoNoNo!"

3. I woke up to a winter wonderland this morning, and the snow has not stopped yet.

4. My family is in Connecticut, and the same way they don't feel like driving over here, I don't feel like driving over there.

5. My husband is being forced to work until 4 a.m. and therefore, even if I did want to drive to CT, I would have no help with the kids, and I am just not feeling up to doing it by myself.

6. My husband is being forced to work until 4 a.m., and I am not in the holiday spirit.

7. My husband is being forced to work until 4 a.m.

8. I am hellbent on having my house clean to start the new year off right, and I have not gotten past the bathroom.

9. I do not even feel like taking a shower, let alone get dressed in something that is more fashionable than it is comfortable.

10. I'd rather just count down with Leila (Mia is like a clock and will be in bed by 7p.m.), watch the ball drop in HD and maybe bake some cookies.

And with that, I wish you all a Happy New Year, wherever and with whomever you decide to spend it.