We had a lot of fun here at the house last night. We allowed the three older kids to stay up late. We asked the kids what kinds of healthy snacks they liked and that’s what we had for dinner (and to eat throughout the night). We had pigs in a blanket, tunafish crackers (with optional roma tomato), bananas, crackers and cheese or peanut butter, cheese squares, peanuts, carrots with ranch dip, and vanilla wafers as a dessert. We played games all the way until quarter to midnight. The first game was Gobble Gobble, a new game they got from Grandma Wall. After they were done with that, we sent AnnaBeth to bed at her normal bedtime because she was so cranky. Noelle went to bed not long afterwards on her own. I was planning on sending her to bed soon anyway. Other games we played were Sequence, Battleship, Mouse Trap, and Clue. When we finished, Amie and Christine were so tired that they went on to bed even though it was so close to midnight. They fell asleep really quickly and didn’t hear us celebrating or the fireworks outside. I thought it was funny how quickly and deeply they fell asleep in such a short time. James stayed up until midnight and then after dancing around and loudly saying, “Happy New Year! It’s 2009!” a few times and giving Jeremy and me some kisses of his own, he went to bed. Jeremy also went to bed fairly quickly. I cleaned up what was left out on the table (which wasn’t much) and headed to bed as well, so I think we were all asleep by 12:45 at the latest.
Anyway, no resolutions here. I don’t make them. I do pray for a wonderful and blessed 2009 for all of you.