Happy New Year!!

Okay, I know it's New Year's Eve, but I had to include one last video of another of my favorite Christmas songs before the "Season" is over. I've always had a fondness for Harry Belafonte's "Mary's Boy Child," and last year I caught this version on the radio and just loved it. The video is awesome for its terrific disco cheesiness (it's from 1978 after all!), and I just love the Carribbean flavor of this version.



And for all you traditionalists out there, here's a little New Year's cheer:



Have a safe celebration tonight (and WARM, if you happen to be in WNY) and we wish you the best for 2009!

Christmas 2008

Because it's 11:00 at night and I'm tired, I'm going to save myself the trouble of uploading Christmas pictures here and just send y'all over to the ones I just put up on Facebook:

http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=77310&l=edcd6&id=1586911971

This album includes one of the best "Scared of Santa" pictures I've experienced. Rest assured Grace is not scarred for life from the experience (and neither is Santa, happily).

Hope everyone had a fun, festive, and fuss-free Christmas!

Christmas Multimedia

I couldn't let Christmas go by without a little multimedia offering of one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs. Even now, this song is the only one that consistently causes me to get a little choked up and teary every time I hear it (which is few and far between I'm afraid!). Hope you enjoy it.

Peace to all the world, and good will to men.

Christmas Card

Happy Christmas to all, and to all good night!!

Mea Culpa

I apologize, little blog, for neglecting you this month. Sadly, I have been busy both at home and at work, and when else is there for me to post? I resolve to do better for you and all 3 of my loyal readers, come the new year. And hopefully I'll be able to get a few more posts up before the end of 2008.

Anyway, to make it up to you, I'll add a little something down the sidebar: a button that links to a blog a friend of mine just turned me onto: THE MEANEST MOM. And here I thought that was me! That will teach me to believe what my kids say.

A couple of human beans

Quoth Matthew: "Mom, if Jon and I were beans, and you tried to eat us, we'd jump off the table and land on the cats to get away. Jon would land on Emma and I would land on Mindy."

I'm glad he's planned this all out.