This is how we celebrated New Year's:
Correction: This depicts how David and Jackson celebrated New Year's.
Okay, that's a lie too.
They were both fast asleep *in jammies* in bed. (As opposed to this awesome pic of Jackson from December of last year....he fell asleep eating lunch after church. Full blown snoring and all.)
Back to the point.
David stayed up until all of 9:30pm before declaring that he was headed to bed. I knew that without any real plans for the evening he would not last long. I overestimated though figuring he might just break the 10pm barrier. Yeah....didn't happen.
I spent the evening helping my children build a gigantic tent in Kayla's room in which they viewed movies back to back for hours.
I'm a bit too tall to fit comfortably instead a make-shift tent for that long. So, I spent my time on the couch flipping back and forth between "Keeping up With the Kardashians" and "Animal Hoarders" whenever the Kardashians tipped my vulgarity tolerance level. Which was basically about every two minutes. But there's just something about being able to watch a family that might just be more dysfunctional than mine!
But perhaps Animal Hoarders is a better example of that. Seriously lady, you had over 200 cats and were upset that Animal Control made you limit it down to 85??? I have an idea! Let's limit it down to say, under 5 like most normal people would. Wouldn't 85 still be considered an UNBELIEVABLE amount of felines in one (presumably) small house?
Okay. New Year's resolution #527 that I make and most likely will break is "Be Less Judgemental."
There, now I'm accountable.
Back to the point -again.
I was honestly touched though by the compassion that Animal Control showed this poor woman as she felt that her children were being wretched away from her. They were very kind and helped her emotionally deal with the whole situation.
In any case, I learned 2 important things from my New Year's Eve spent in boredom flipping channels on the couch until the ball dropped.
First, I love my life. I really, really, love my life. Complete with a sweet husband who just can't stay up until midnight on a quiet New Year's Eve at home to save his life. Complete with adorable children who the eldest two of which filled my heart with joy when they were just as excited as me to stay up until midnight to ring in the New Year. And, complete with a high energy, high maintenance three-year-old little boy who made my night enjoyable by crashing into a deep (snoring) sleep by 9:00pm.
The second important thing I learned?
Don't be like the Kardashians or crazy animal hoarders.
They're all pretty nasty.
Happy New Year!
