Happy New Year!

Well, it's 2007! Amazing. Another year gone by. We were thinking of all that happened this year--the good, the bad. All in all, it was a good but very, very busy year.

We had some plans for last night, but none of them panned out. But we had a good New Year's Eve all the same. We'd planned to go to Mississippi Pizza and hear a concert. But when Paul called half an hour before it was to start, he was told there were no tables available in the music room. And then the kids started saying they didn't feel like going out, anyway. Zac had been saying he was feeling sick ever since he woke up in the morning, but pushed himself through church and didn't feel like doing anymore pushing. (Thank goodness they both seem fine this morning! Alive and bickering, as usual. Ah, parenthood.)

And then, we'd heard that Pix Patisserie was having a *free* chocolate buffet from 12am to 2am. Seemed decadent, and a little late for us. But we thought we'd try....but by midnight we were all just waiting for that magical 2007 moment to arrive so we could go to bed.

What we did end up doing: getting pizza from Hot Lips Pizza and watching the movie Millions. (We watched Millions in the theater when it came out two years ago, and really enjoyed it then. We enjoyed it once more last night. One of my favorite things about the movie is the bobbling halos on the saints--and the depictions of the saints in general.) Then we cut our Vasilopita, and drank Martinelli's and a fizzy muscat wine at midnight. We talked about the old year, and what we want to do in the new year. We had a good evening, even though it's not exactly what I'd envisioned.

Today I am making Portzelke! We are having some friends over to help eat them, which is highly needed because of the sheer volume in which these fried delicacies come out. Plus, you don't feel as guilty eating them if other people are eating them with you.