I’m going to the Mall of America today, I haven’t been there in awhile, but it seems that the time has come to revisit! Now that the rush of Christmas has passed I am trying to focus on the next task at hand….The Wedding Day. and it’s only a mere 81 days away. WOW. So my maid of honor and I are going to the Mall to find some brides miads shoes, it seemed like the logical place to start. Crossing Fingers.

After some serious shopping and lunch with an old friend, I’ll be heading to my aunts house in New Brighton. It’s a tradition since I can remember, to go to my aunts house for new years. My family is huge and we don’t all get together for Christmas, this celebration is when I am able to visit with my “city family”. This new years will  be bitter-sweet in that many lives were changed this year. Not always for the better of course. My family is still grieveing from the loss of my young uncle who pass on Dec 6th, and getting together seems to be best way to coop.

what do you do for new years?

Our traditions include but certainly not limited to…..my mom’s good baked goods, a long game of charades, a little apples to apples. singing bimbo carols, having a toast at midnight, watching the ball drop, playing cards usually for money, calling everyone who isn’t there at midnight and screaming Old Lang Si into the phone, mad gab, catch phrase, outburst,  laughing, eating some more of whatever we can find, talking about the years past, what our resolutions should be and what they really are…..and mostly importantly just being together!

well my ride should be here soon! got to run

CHEERS  to a safe and happy new year! See you in 2008
sherry