Beginning 2018

Here we are at the first day of 2018.  My kids spent last night with my mom (and she kept the dog as well).  I will write about our New Year's Eve and the rest of our break on another day...today is just about the very first day of this year.  After retrieving the kids from my mom's house this morning, we are spending the day exactly as I like it to be.  We are watching football ALL DAY(Go Irish), there is chili (compliments of Andrew) in the crock pot, a lovely scented candle is lit, and we are all sitting in the glow of the Christmas tree lights in a relatively picked up house.  January 1 is always one of my favorite days of the year.  Tomorrow the kids have swim & basketball practices again, but no one goes to school yet, and we get to spend today just being.  I am being grateful and my heart is full!