Hooray! A brand new year! I have a special liking for the New Years holiday. I think it is because we always spend our christmas ‘vacation’ traveling, and once we get back home, its nice to have a holiday in our own house, with our own food, and no make-up, or pictures, or plans. I like to cook a special meal and Phil likes to play video games and we all just unwind. The kids were perfectly happy back in their own beds with all their new toys. Liz was able to work on New Years Eve, so Phil and I both worked half days and then met up for a quick new years eve date at the duck pin bowling alley. When we got home, we kicked off New Years Eve with our own little countdown at 8pm:
There was a special ‘kids countdown’ on netflix that you could start any time you wanted. It was like a 10 minute thing. The kids ate oreos and we tried to make a big deal of ‘Happy New Year’ and then they were off to bed!
I went to bed shortly after them, ha. But Evie woke up with a wicked cough at 11:30, after she went back to sleep, I figured I might as well go down stairs and watch the ball drop with Phil. Can we just talk about the new years eve countdown shows for a second? They are beyond horrible. Phil and I switched back and forth between Ryan Seacrest, Jenny McCarthey, and Taylor Swift, And then there was Carson Daly, Lady Gaga, and Tony Bennett?! I’m so confused on the groupings of these people. Anyway. It was bad. At midnight I gave Phil a kiss and went back to bed.
The next day began our official Woznation Holiday. We got up early and headed to the Science Museum.
Then I made a new pot roast recipe, and we had our last gift opening with the kids. Some of our family sent gifts to the house, so the kids had like 6 christmases! After nap we did the gift opening and took down the tree. Here is Evie mid-meltdown — you can tell how concerned we all are. Shes a bit of a drama queen.
Finally happy with her new boats:
It was a really fun few days. Unfortunately Jan started with me being swamped at work with a few extra projects I was asked to do as a ‘favor’. Which led to me being really behind on other tasks until well into February. So I spent lots of time here:
But would occasionally treat myself to things like this (Blue Moon Cafe!) Yum:
Other than that, we would do things on the weekends. We let our aquarium membership expire – so we went one last time. And then we also spent time at The B&O Train Museum, Storyville, at home making cookies, or getting Evie’s first hair cut! We have been trying to find as many indoor places possible! Winter has been brutal! Its currently 7 degrees. We had a few days above freezing, where we could hang out at the park – but have otherwise just hunkered down and stayed warm. (Minus the one picture of the beach from Phil’s work trip to Florida mid-January!)
Woznation 
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