Happy New Year!

My house is back to normal (i.e. no Christmas decorations) - spent the day taking them down & then having a good clean. Really feels light and airy now, which is not really something you can say about my house most of the time - it's tidy, but we have a lot of stuff, so light and airy doesn't really describe it.

We all had a lovely lie in this morning - until after 9.30, which is amazing. This is due to most of us being up to see the New Year in, of course. Olivia was the only one to miss out, as she fell asleep on the sofa around 11pm, I think. Alex, however, was awake. Although he'd gone to bed at a normal time, he has a really bad cold, and spent a lot of time half sleeping/half grumbling & coughing a LOT. Eventually, he coughed so much he made himself sick, poor chap. However, as I said to Geoff, if he's going to be sick late at night (it was about 11.30) and then want to be awake for an hour or more, he sure picked the right night to do it - probably the only night we'd all be awake anyway. So he saw the new year in. And Sarah, of course, is a night owl, so she's bound to be awake if we let her.

So, we had a nice family New Year's Eve - watched Spiderman 2 on DVD (Christmas present) and then Jools Holland (music programme) on telly - very civilised, and although drinking was done, it wasn't the hangover inducing type, which put us much more in the mood to spend the day clearing the house. Wednesday, the kids are back to school - calloo, callay!