One thing with staying local for the holidays is that you get assigned more cat duty. The Chrismans were in Scotland for Christmas, so we were responsible for making sure that Lola and Lily got all the love and food they needed. It's unclear how much Lola enjoyed the love from Reese at this point.
Callie has developed a good rapport with Lily, though, so she always knows where to find her and how to make sure she gets love in the doses she appreciates. And we took pictures to send across the Atlantic so that Sharon and Chris knew that the cats were enjoying the holidays as well. Other photos that we sent involved us perusing their wine collection and watering the houseplants. We figured those were less adorable than the ones pictured here.
Although we didn't host a party this time around, we did want to get in the party spirit and so we decorated and got ourselves all spiffied up for the occasion. The girls were happy to play along.
The night's activities included a lot of tasty appetizers and some good old fashioned family fun. It's always important to know that even if it is just the four of us we can still have a blast.
The new year started paying dividends right away when we found out the girls were scheduled to go back to school on January 2 and UK was officially closed for new year's holiday. This meant no kids and no work - so what better thing to do than to support one of our favorite local breweries. And of course, why should we do it alone?
It ended up being a wonderful parents' day out as we were able to encourage most of our wine club members to join us for the day. As quick as our smiles brightened our faces at 11:00am when our tour began, so did the smiles quickly fade as the afternoon drew to a close and we realized that we had to get our children from school. It was a fun day and one we hope to repeat in future years.
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