Happy New Year!

[przed]

This holiday season has been busier than usual, what with visiting family, and family members visiting us, and keeping a little girl amused and in Clementine oranges. But I wanted to take a moment to wish everyone on the flist a happy and healthy new year. I hope you all accomplish what you'd like and find as much joy as possible.

Had to share this pic of our street as it looked this afternoon. We got hit by a small snowstorm today. Nothing too serious, just enough to make our neighbourhood look like a Christmas card:


We're hoping to watch Wilby Wonderful with my visiting sister-in-law this evening, but I am hoping to get a "things wot I done this year" post up later tonight. On the off chance I don't manage it, here are the links to my two final stories of the year:

Home for the Holidays was written for the discoveredinalj Discovered in the Brandy Butter challenge. It's another in my Comfort and Joy series, though a little darker than the rest of those tales have been.

The Starlight Affair, as was just revealed today, was my contribution to the muncle Down the Chimney story exchange. I drew renn as my recipient, and after I recovered from the crazy prompts (The Grinch?! Artificial starlight?! Sparkling wine vs. champagne?!) I wrote this little tale of April and Illya battling a rather frightening enemy.

And just for fun, here's one last picture...
...Rosalind conquering the aforementioned Clementines on New Year's Eve

Comments

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

RE: little snowstorm.

I'm jealous.

The entire holiday, all we got was rain. Yuck.

[przed.livejournal.com]

If it makes you feel any better, it was really wet snow (hence the picture postcard look) and really heavy to shovel.

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

No, it doesn't make me feel better :)

[przed.livejournal.com]

You're just going to have to move to the Great White North. ;-)

[st-crispins.livejournal.com]

If another Republican gets elected president, I may have to.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Good luck with that. Though honestly, our current Conservative, moron, ruling party aren't much better.

[the-cornettist.livejournal.com]

The ones in the UK are no better either (whether in power or in opposition). I reckon ALL politicians are morons. I think it's one of the pre-requisites for them becoming politicians ;)

[ancastar.livejournal.com]

It looks like Rosalind is getting ready to juggle!

Happy New Years Day right back at you.

I love your snowy day. We were actually in the 40's and sunny, but the wind is =winding= again tonight. It's been howling all day. So far the electricity is holding. :-)

Take care, hon.

[przed.livejournal.com]

A juggling baby. There's a scary thought. *g*

I'd settle for 40's today. Today, it's -24C with the windchill. Brrrr.

[gina-stormgrant.livejournal.com]

Hey, great jacket. (You know I would say, that, right?)

Also, great kid.

Happy New year.
Love,
~ Gina

[przed.livejournal.com]

I meant to get Don to take a full pic of the jacket, but what with baby wrangling, I forgot.

Happy New Year to you too!
Love,
P

[sunray45.livejournal.com]

What a fabulous Winter Wonderland pic., and a lovely one of Rosalind.

We have a Tropical low sitting off our coastline; has been for about a week, so gale force winds, cloudy, bits of rain, temperatures up to 28 degrees celcius. All the beaches are closed to swimmers and surfers as it is so dangerous. Sort of cyclonic weather but not a cyclone.

Hope you and your family have a fabulous New Year.

(http://s137.photobucket.com/albums/q221/Peggy_033/My%20LJ/Christmas%202007/?action=view&current=Servant041BDWrFilter.jpg)

[przed.livejournal.com]

The tropical part sounds lovely, and the temperature, but not the cyclone part. *g*

Nice icon!

[shaw012145.livejournal.com]

Rosalind looks very happy with herself ... look at what I've got :)

You could make your own personal Christmas Card with your street picture ... we are very humid here ... thanks for cooling me down.

Happy New Year.

[przed.livejournal.com]

She was very pleased with the Clementines. All the kids at the party decided they were the most interesting thing in the house and were carrying them around.

We got a nasty cold snap today. Humid sounds lovely. *g*

[shaw012145.livejournal.com]

How we go 50/50 ... you cold and my humidity ... and then we will be just right :)

[callistosh65.livejournal.com]

Am very envious of all the snow.. don't care how wet and hard to shovel it was, it looks bee-yoo-tiful.

And go Rosalind with the juggling there!!

Oh, and before I forget, Happy New Year!!

[przed.livejournal.com]

I have to say, the snow yesterday was wayyy prettier than we usually get. (Toronto snow tends to grey and slushy.)

Clearly, I need to encourage the juggling Rosalind. *g*

[paris7am.livejournal.com]

Yay! Rosalind! Happy times, aren't they?
We have my parents staying with us for two weeks, and I find that the sweetest thing is to just have other people to watch Lew with, to be able to look over into their eyes and share that love, that pure happiness of seeing these gorgeous little ones and the things they do... I know that you know what I'm talking about!

[przed.livejournal.com]

We spent three days up at my parents, and yeah, it's special to share Rosalind with them. ('Course, my mom also tends to encourage Rosalind's destructo-baby tendencies. I think she's getting back at me for being a handful at that age. *g*)

[the-cornettist.livejournal.com]

I bet someone as talented as you could make a fantastic Christmas card for next year from that photo :D

And awwww - isn't Rosalind cute? My kids love clementines and it's nigh on impossible keeping them in sufficient quantities - every time I go shopping, I have to buy some more *g*

[przed.livejournal.com]

That pic is Christmas card pretty, isn't it? (Pity I usually do the Chinese New Year card instead.)

Rosalind's unpredictable with the Clementines. She'll go a few days eating as many as we'll give her, and then a few days more where she just plays with 'em.

[schnuffi.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you and your family too! Looks like you're living in Winter Wonderland right now. Very beautiful. And Rosalind is just adorable *G*

[przed.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It's definitely a Winter Wonderland at the moment.

Have a great new year yourself.

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year to you and your beloveds.

What a lovely snowy picture and so cute Rosalind.

[przed.livejournal.com]

A lovely New Year to you and yours as well.

[nakeisha.livejournal.com]

Thank you.

[sooguy.livejournal.com]

Happy New Year!

Enjoy that snow. It stayed down your way and never made it this far north. Thankfully.

All that melting snow should be interesting with the +15C weather you guys are going to get next week.

Sorry we didn't get a chance to get together over the holidays.

[przed.livejournal.com]

Wish we could have made it up. Hopefully we see you, up there or down here, soon.

If we do get +15C, it'll be interesting. It's been -15C all day today, and that's without the windchill.

[msmoat.livejournal.com]

How I can possibly admire a photo of (yet more) snow, I don't know, but that is gorgeous. And how great is it that Rosalind likes Clementines? Of course, they are just her size, aren't they?

Happy new year to you and your family!

[przed.livejournal.com]

The Clementine are the perfect size for Rosalind. (She and her other toddler compatriots were having fun carrying them around the party.)

Happy new year to you as well!