I am not sure that we have had cheese fondue every New Year’s Eve, but apparently we have had it enough that several people I know asked me if we were going to have it for this New Year’s Eve. We had not planned on it. We talked about it but on the night BEFORE New Year’s Eve, we didn’t have all the things we like and instead of rallying to get what we needed we decided not to do it. But then, when it came time to cook dinner on New Year’s Eve I realized I didn’t know what to cook and figured I might as well make fondue. We didn’t have EVERYTHING we normally like, but we had enough to make the fondue. So we ended up having cheese fondue for New Year’s Eve in 2024.
I recently had a student contact me and say she was looking for a cheese fondue recipe and mine came up (several results down, but still)! That made me very happy. As my post states, it is a recipe that my mom searched high and low for. I don’t know where she ended up getting it for if she cobbled it together from other recipes, but it was the closest she could come to the cheese fondue she loved from The Bold Knight.
Do you have a traditional New Year’s Eve dinner? Did you have a special New Year’s Eve dinner in 2024?
Here we are, the seventh day of the 12 Days of Christmas. And it is New Year’s Eve. It is going to be 2025 tomorrow. Wow. Here is another picture of our Christmas Tree. The star topper is just plain, but it tends to catch the light and make lovely reflections on the wall. I bought a new one this year (a metal gold star) so this may be the last year for this plastic one. We will see. But this is a delightful shot of it.
Happy New Year!
The shadow and the reflection are more visible than the topper itself.
I hope everyone has some happiness and cheer this year. I know the entire year cannot be happy, so I am hoping you all have moments . . . the more the better.
Today’s Friday Photo is a painting I did in August when I was able to join a Zoom Paint Nite. So fun. And I like it. I’ve done two others that I don’t like as much. Well, one, not at all!
While I am excited to leave the Christmas tree and decorations up for another week, I don’t think our cats are. But maybe. The tree is in the spot that their cat tower normally resides, but it is on a table so that they can still have access to the spot where the sun shines. Here is Teagan and Nessa for the first Friday Photo of 2021.
So it is New Year’s Eve. We are about to enter into 2019. Wow! TWO THOUSAND NINETEEN! I am seeing a lot of different things on Facebook and the rest of the internet. Many people make resolutions. Many people pick words to motivate their new year or for them to live by. Some people pick phrases. There are so many things that so many people do. Along with the various things people do that I am seeing I am also seeing the various attitudes towards the exiting year. Some people are saying it was the worst year ever while some people are saying it was great. So many different things have transpired and we all have had different experiences. Do you make New Year’s Resolutions? Do you pick a word or a phrase to live by or guide your year? I don’t do any of that. I am just going gratefully into the New Year and hope to live it gracefully and gratefully. There are changes coming up, but there are every year, right? We just face ’em and do our best.
I would like to give you a virtual hug because you may be happy this year is ending and need it or you may be just fine, but most everyone enjoys a hug. I would also like to wish you a
Happy, Healthy, and
WONDERFUL 2019!
I know this is a video of our Christmas tree, and it is New Year’s Eve, but I thought it was sparkly and festive!
I hope everyone had a very nice first day of 2018. I know in my group of friends/acquaintances there are some that are facing some pretty heartbreaking challenges, but for the most part I am seeing a lot of “Happy New Year” posts on Facebook. A lot of people thinking that 2018 will be better than 2017 . . . not getting into what they might have thought 2017 (good/bad/great/horrific) . . . just that they think 2018 will be better. I have a few things I am looking forward to in 2018.
I am going to eek out the last day that I think I can get away with posting Christmas stuff. I received several lovely ornaments for Christmas and I want to share . . . although I am sure they will make it on to some form of my social media next year. I wanted to share this year, too. Some I have already posted on Facebook. But I am sharing here too!
I have two new ones from Pilgrim Imports. You may have read my post about Lenox ornaments. I used to get their annual snowflake ornament. I did it for years. But the quality started to decline and I was rethinking that whole thing. Then one year I received one that was poorly painted and the little gems were all crooked so I asked to exchange it. Well, they sent me another one that was almost as bad as the first. So I stopped receiving their annual ornament. And asked them to stop marketing to me altogether. Their regular ornaments might be better quality, but if they can’t put out a good quality for their annual ornament I stopped being a customer. I discovered Pilgrim Import ornaments. They are metal ornaments with sparkles attached and bobbles hanging from some of them. I love them. If you’ve seen any of my post about Christmas ornaments before you have probably seen one or two of them. This year I received two new ones. A jelly fish with pink and blue “pearls” attached. And a giraffe adorned with glass beads!
And . . . as I said, Lenox’s regular ornaments might be fine because we receive a beautiful glass Angel that says HOPE from my sister-in-law. It is also not the regular porcelain (or whatever the snowflakes are made of) type of ornaments I used to collect.
I also was gifted a silver star and a beautiful blue butterfly. The angel I received on Christmas and our tree is a little too droopy for me to trust her on it. I don’t think the branches would hold her safely. But the star and butterfly are not as fragile so they went on right away.
I am looking forward to decorating with them next Christmas. I am not looking forward to taking down the tree and all the decorations. So much so that I haven’t even started yet.
Happy 2018. Is there anything you are looking forward to in 2018?
So, Happy New Year, huh? Yeah! Let’s just make it a good year. There is always going to be stuff going on that we can focus on to make it a “bad” year, but let’s not focus on that. Let’s just decide it is going to be a good year and make it be a good year. Well, again, I have that whole “thing” with years and days and the like being “bad” or “good”. They actually just are. It is the moments IN the year/day. The moments that make up the year that one might label “bad” or “good”, but to label the entire length of time bad or good, is just not something I do. So . . . let’s make a lot of fun, exciting, smile-worthy moments in 2017!
We shall have so many smile-worthy moments that when something happens that makes us sad or upset we will be able to face it better. We can make it through and not have it turn us into permanent mush. I mean sometimes things will happen in life where you might need to take some time to be “mush” – not doing anything, and just process the situation. But I don’t think it is good to stay mush. There are too many good things in life to just be a pile of mush. So, if there are a lot of experiences that have created smiles AND things to come that will create smiles it is easier to get through the mush times.
My hubby and I read all the things in our Goodie Jar last night. It was fun to be reminded of some of the smile-worthy moments. I did forget about a lot of them, so it was wonderful to be reminded.
I’ve had a week off from my Nia, yoga, and stretch classes and I am ready to get back to them. We are going to be moving and grooving into 2017. We had a nice rain to help us get a clean start in the new year. It is looking good!
Ok, I have said it before and you all know it . . . we all deal with things differently. We all process things differently. We all have had different experiences in life so it is different for everyone. So, you feel the way you want to feel. You deal with things the way you want to deal with them. You face life the way you want to face it. I am not saying any particular way is right or wrong. I am just saying that I won’t condemn an entire year to being a “bad year” or a “lousy year” because THINGS that happened during that year were not the greatest. I don’t even think of it as “bad” or “negative” that I somewhat consider 2014 to be “The Year Of Death”. There seemed to be a large quantity of deaths that affected my life and those close to me, but that does not have me saying it was a bad year. It is that time of year where I start seeing FB post about people wishing the past year “good riddance” (and that is putting it nicely) and being ready for the New Year because it can’t be as “bad” as the past year. I usually take a moment for them because their pain seems to be bigger than their happiness. But I did just see a post from a friend that made me squirm with joy in my seat. I am stealing it and wholeheartedly embracing her attitude. Thank you, Daphne!
Her post was: “I remember good times. I choose good times. 2015 I welcome you and all the newness you have to offer me. My heart and my arms are wide open to accept all that you have to offer. Let’s do this!” This coming from a woman who sometimes seems to get kicked in life more than she should. But she keeps plugging along.
With the other posts I have been seeing about the “rotten year” it has been, I am just really loving her status post. She doesn’t even HINT at anything that happened in 2014 that she didn’t like or that threw her for a loop. She just states she remembers the good times. Then . . . . THEN she chooses the good times. She is making a conscious effort to have good times. How can she not now? Then she is welcoming the new year . . . and not just the year, but all the “NEWNESS” it is offering her. THEN . . . THEN . . . she opens her heart and her arms “wide open”! To accept all that the year has to offer. So she is a hecka brave woman. She is not just saying “give me the good stuff” she is going to accept ALL that the year has to offer. My heart is giddy!
I am so in love with this right now. Can you tell? Of course you can because I am making it my last post of the year! Whatever I had alluded to in my last post . . . I can’t even remember because this is my post!
I do sincerely wish you a very Happy 2015. I hope that whatever you are experiencing that has you giving 2014 the boot, will fade and allow you to embrace joy in this coming year. Thank you for reading. Thank you for commenting. Thank you.
Happy New Year to ALL!
Perhaps we can start off the New Year with an upswing by sharing something that we are looking forward to in 2015? What do you have coming up that will bring you joy?
So this is our last Goodie Jar check in. It is #43 because I didn’t start until February and I missed five throughout the year. My five misses were just posting, I missed posting a check-in but I have been filling my “jar” all year round.
I was talking to my friend and she asked what I was going to do with them after I read them all and I hadn’t thought of that. I figured I would just throw them away. She is much more organized than I am and she is going to save hers in her “save box”. She has a box that she puts stuff in all year. What doesn’t fit doesn’t get saved. Then after about five years she empties five boxes into ziplock bags and puts them in a larger container. So she has many of her precious memories saved all nicely and neatly. I was very impressed. My memories; cards, ticket stubs, cruise cards, room keys, etc. are stashed in nooks and crannies all over the house. So she is going to save hers. Because she has a place to put them. I don’t have a place.
I might scan them, but I’m not sure I will make time for that. Whatever I end up doing with the notes of good things from my good thing jar I know I had a great time making note of the good things. And I know I will enjoy reading them. My jar has gotten so full I have been pushing the papers down.
I hope you have a full jar. Full of all the good things that have happened to you in 2013. I wish you a very happy and healthy 2014. Thanks for being here.
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