The New Years Post

New Years has become an annual tradition of heading over to Plainwell and celebrating with Adam's cousins. This year was quite strange in that Mason mostly played with his second cousins and didn't need much oversight from us. I kept hovering for a while until I realized he didn't need me around, and that the big cousins would let me know if he was up to no good. I mentioned as much to a tipsy Adam, and we sort of reveled in the temporary freedom.

Mason was quite the trooper again this year, staying up till midnight to watch the ball drop. He even blew his own tooter. He and I hit the pillows by 12:30 - though he wasn't too happy about it since the other kids were still just getting ready for bed.

New Years Day is also quite a tradition - but all about football instead of family. We got home from Plainwell with just enough time to set up some snacks and turn the tv on to watch MSU take the field in the Capital One Bowl. In spite of all our green and white, take the field was about all the Spartans did right this day. The game was over quickly (when will there be a mercy rule?) but we had Nana and Papa over to keep our spirits up. What a bad day for the Big Ten this turned out to be, but at least the Rose Bowl was worth watching until the end. All well, it's just a game right? And there's always basketball season... oh wait, that's not going so well either. Okay, so maybe there's always next year.