The second week of school break was just as exciting for everyone as the first, since we had visits from the Hamm and Sieger families for most of the week. At the same time, we were hosting play dates with a couple of Haley's school friends during the workdays, and Aiden was going back and forth to winter break camp too. The house seemed to be crawling with kids at most times, but our new place is so open and spacious it never felt tight at all. The kids were often down in the basement playroom, watching movies or playing all sorts of imaginative games, and the adults were able to spend some quality time preparing meals and just talking in the great room. It was a real treat to get that much time with my cousins, who I generally only get to see for a few hours during frenetic holiday visits to Long Island.
The Hamms and Siegers went skiing at Sunapee all day on Tuesday, and then the kids and I joined them on New Years Eve to go snow tubing at Ragged. The tubing was fast and fun (for everyone but Haley, who was not impressed) and we definitely got our money's worth in numbers of runs. Then it was back home to host a small New Years gathering which did NOT last anywhere close to midnight. Ha. We are truly getting old, I guess. Everyone was in bed by 10:30, except for James and Aiden, who (just barely) stayed awake to welcome 2015 into being. My New Years resolution? To try not to plan every moment, every vacation day, every weekend down to the second this year, and leave some wiggle room for spontaneity... this wont at all be easy for me; I'm a planner. But I have a suspicion that most of those perfect moments, when everyone you love is absorbed and engaged in life in the best ways possible, when you think, "yes, life is so good- right NOW"....come from the unexpected stops, the happy coincidences, those moments that you didn't already have an expectation for in your head. So I hope to enjoy more of those moments in 2015.
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