Flypaper thoughts day before New Year's Eve edition

• I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas
• Know that not all are spectacular and that not all folks like the holidays
• But I do, assembling as much of the family as we can and making the dishes we always make marks the years for me
• With the poignancy that brings
• High point was seeing Miss Heidi fast asleep in a fluffy eyeshade
• I will remember that
• I will forget the part where the new dog decided to mark the corners of an unfamiliar room by lifting his leg
• Back to high points
• My formerly cynical youngest son had decorated lit candles around the place and a fridge full of drinks when we arrived
• Candles
• My son
• My husband had an idea of filming us all inside the house with a drone
• We put a stop to that plan
• Note to new couples
• Pay close attention to your first Christmas menus
• Once the kids get used to it you are making the same thing year after year
• I made mistake with a little number called Potatoes Romanoff
• Sour cream, potatoes, cheese casserole etc.
• Fine dining for sure
• Everyone still wants it but modern eaters just pick at it
• Heaven forbid that it isn't on the table though
• Now onto New Year's
• Sister and brother-in-law here for the week
• Dinner and a movie
• Men want documentaries
• Not often I am speechless
• Thinking about sewn items I wore most this year
• Turns out my own eyeshade
• Highly recommend for deep sleeping
• Heidi gets this
• Also a frumpy polar fleece sweater thing with good pockets
• Wore it about 10,000 times more often than my careful blazer
• Note to self
• Remember you have an ordinary life
• Had the neighbours in
• Man across the street won the lotto and quit work years ago
• Full time job now is monitoring the street
• Most informative guest
• Picks things up when he dog sits and snow shovels
• Takes out my garbage when my husband travels
• Won the lotto and takes out my garbage
• Not the only one around here who feels the pull of the ordinary life I guess
• Good neighbours are good things
• Did some baking before my company arrived
• Then ate it all before they did
• This is actually true
• No shortage of new year's resolutions to make around here