Happy New Year!

Today is the first day of 2009. Mason woke up and immediately asked to make latkes.

What a weird kid. He's been totally into Hanukkah lately. So we made latkes. And they were good. And fried. And not on my New Year's diet. Oh, well. It was educational, right?

Ella Grace spent the day packing up her entire room and moving it out onto the front porch. She got out all the car seats and created a "van" to drive to the beach. The good news is, when she arrived at the "hotel" (her room), she unpacked everything and put it away. What a good day.

Kathleen's been studying all day. For some reason, that's making me very nervous.

After latkes for breakfast, I felt compelled to follow up with a more traditional New Year's dinner: ham and black-eyed peas.

I'm feeling very optimistic.