Happy New Year!!

Welll, we made it to 2009. It's so hard to believe that it's been 9 years since the big Y2K scare. No one knew what was going to happen and all kinds of scary things were going around. We were in Wisconsin for Christmas that year, and came back home just because we had no idea what would really happen at midnight.

We went to some friends' place for New Year's Eve and at the stroke of midnight the lights all went out. AND they didn't come back on right away, and it was like "Oh, oh!" And then they came back on. Tommy had flipped the switchbox switch for a short time. Pretty eerie for a while, all right.

Last night we went to a "singing" over at a little church just SE of us. This is the 3rd. or 4th. year we've gone, and we really enjoyed it. This year we actually went early enough to get in on the food! That's always Bill's favorite part of singings. Especially these singings where there are a lot of Choctaw Indians in attendance. The food is always really good and different. He ate about all night. A very good friend of mine who I used to sing with back in the 80's has started going to that church, so she was there and we did a few numbers together. It was so-o-o-o good to be singing with her again. I played the music on my accordion so that I didn't have to be sitting back at the piano, and that worked out OK, too. Different from what we used to do, but I think it went good. There were a lot of specials last night - so it could be considered a very good singing. We came home about 11:00 and made us a cup of hot chocolate sat in the living room and talked until12:00 midnight. Then we went to bed. No big fireworks display or "Auld Lang Syne" playing, but it was a very nice New Year's Eve.

So here we are - 2009. Cookie is losing her baby teeth - I found two more on the carpet in the bedroom this morning, so I guess she'll have "big girl" teeth here before long. Maybe they won't be as sharp and bitey as these little baby teeth of hers. They are SHARP!!!!

Well, that's the story of our big New Year's. Hope yours was fun and really exciting, but if you are like us, this was probably about it.

Till next time,
JB