Good morning! And Happy Friday! Rick and I are on Day 2 of our five-day long weekend.
What will you do on New Year's Day to celebrate the start of 2018? Will you eat a special meal or a special "good luck" food? Will you watch all the football games? Will you spend your afternoon taking down holiday decorations? Will you spend your day on the couch with the cats reading your latest book? What's your pleasure?
I always make pork and sauerkraut over mashed potatoes for our New Year's dinner. My grandmother made it and so did my mom. It might be an old PA Dutch thing, I'm not sure, but it's supposed to bring good luck. Right before we go to bed (around 2-3:00 in the morning or so), we'll give the cats a snack, hoping they keep quiet longer than 5:00! I'll put the pork roast in the crock pot and let it cook until around noon or so. We'll have an early meal.
I'll be taking down the Tacky White Tree in the afternoon and then vacuuming up all the white "needles"; there are a lot of them. I'll take the kitchen decorations down, too. The living room tree will probably stay up until the weekend. Rick will be watching football games pretty much all day and I'll read for a while. We will go up to spend some time with his mom right after dinner. This has the been the first time in years that we've had no parents with us on Christmas or New Year's. It's kind of weird.
What about you? How will you spend your first day of 2018?
What will you do on New Year's Day to celebrate the start of 2018? Will you eat a special meal or a special "good luck" food? Will you watch all the football games? Will you spend your afternoon taking down holiday decorations? Will you spend your day on the couch with the cats reading your latest book? What's your pleasure?
I always make pork and sauerkraut over mashed potatoes for our New Year's dinner. My grandmother made it and so did my mom. It might be an old PA Dutch thing, I'm not sure, but it's supposed to bring good luck. Right before we go to bed (around 2-3:00 in the morning or so), we'll give the cats a snack, hoping they keep quiet longer than 5:00! I'll put the pork roast in the crock pot and let it cook until around noon or so. We'll have an early meal.
I'll be taking down the Tacky White Tree in the afternoon and then vacuuming up all the white "needles"; there are a lot of them. I'll take the kitchen decorations down, too. The living room tree will probably stay up until the weekend. Rick will be watching football games pretty much all day and I'll read for a while. We will go up to spend some time with his mom right after dinner. This has the been the first time in years that we've had no parents with us on Christmas or New Year's. It's kind of weird.
What about you? How will you spend your first day of 2018?