New Years Sledding

The end of 2012 was not the best part of our year...Soon after Christnas Mike got really sick (it turned out to be strep throat) and was entirely out of commission for 3-4 days. Then Elliot got sick and was miserable and not sleeping. Since Mike was bedridden it was all me for the nights....one night I only had a total of 2 hours sleep the entire night, and faced the next morning with a miserable baby with a high fever, a 5 year old going crazy from too much time indoors, a very sick husband, and 5 inches of snow that had fallen overnight and needed to be shoveled.

That was the low point.

Mike got on antibiotics, and Elliot slept through the night (yeah!) and things were remarkably better after that. New Years Eve, though, turned into a very low key event where I went to bed at 9:30. Oh well.

On New Years Day, Henry and I were able to get out of the house finally to go sledding with his friends. We went to the park at the top of the hill we live on...It is great for sledding in terms of location, hill, and speed. The drawback is the parents need to stand at the bottom and literally catch the kids if they don't manage to stop on their own, since the bottom of the hill has trees, a steep drop off, and then a road. (we like to live on the edge). Sledding isn't sledding unless you have to fling yourself onto a moving sled to stop the occupant from flying into the street.

Happy New Year! May 2013 bring joy, good health, and SLEEP to all!