New Year's Eve, 2009!

New Year's Eve! Not quite the same when you have children, but still thrilling in its own way. We celebrated with our fellow Canadians... in the Maritimes. One of the benefits of satellite television is that you can watch things three to four hours ahead of prime time, so I found a Halifax station that was ringing in the New Year and the kids and I had a little party until 8:00pm.

I made the kids a special New Year's Dinner, ribs, couscous, and corn. I thought it was great, they would have been happy with peanut butter on toast. Ah, well... the party hats helped.

Note the "2000" on the hat. Mom saved these from Y2K. We've had fun with them for the past couple of years, since my kids don't know what year it is, at the best of times.

Waiting patiently with his noisemaker...

Counting down... 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!!! This year I didn't actually get away with it. Alex, after we'd rung in an Eastern New Year's, said "You know it's not really midnight, right?"Kirstin getting in on the excitement, shaking her noisemaker and shouting "Happy, Happy!!!"

Happy New Year!