On the Twelfth Day of Christmas

my true love gave to me - a new laptop to replace my failing one and a wonderfully lazy day spent on the couch in pj's! A slug-fest my co=worker would call it :-)

There was also wonderful food shared with a longtime friend/sister of my heart - BB. 

Lamb with roasted sweet potato and sundried tomato green beans

Reese received his candy-cane rawhide 

I love watching him try to figure out where he should start each year!

We wish you and yours nothing but JOY for this new year of 2013. We are looking forward to a simplified 'To-Do' list for the house (albeit the projects will be bigger) and carving out a bit more time for us - that might mean day trips, or a slug-fest or two but either way, I will endeavor to bring you along! 

New Years' Menu

Second Breakfast while watching the New Years' Day Parade:
HoneyDew Melon
coffee/tea
Scrambled eggs with stuff: mushrooms, peppers, chicken sausage, black pepper

Munchies is Early Afternoon:
Crackers with hummus (original and roasted red pepper)
cracker barrel special edition aged white cheddar
King's aged blue cheese

Dinner:
chopped salad (mixed greens, cucumber, orange pepper, tomato)
baked ham w/brown sugar and butter glaze
Harvard beets
creamed spinach
steamed green beans w/sauteed mushrooms, sundried tomatoes in their oil and crumbled feta

Drinks:
hot apple cider with spiced rum
white wine
coffee/tea with dessert

Dessert:
apple and pear crisp (gluten-free) with stonyfield 'Gotta-Have-Vanilla' ice cream

Happy New Year!

We celebrated with champagne at home with Reese - see his nose? LOL

Today we will be celebrating a second family Christmas with the Loves. I'll be back with our Menu and pictures!