Choosing Joy - New Year's Eve Shin-Dig

My friend, Jill, never ceases to amaze me with her hospitality - I received a call from her yesterday afternoon as I was trying to concentrate on work (somewhat challenging around the Holidays). She was coordinating an impromptu New Year's Eve get together with friends.
It turned out to be quite the Shin Dig - food, streamers, balloons, champagne, sparkling juice, noise makers and games. Each person had to write down a New Year's Resolution and place it in the basket. Jill then read off each paper and we had to guess who had written it. Brian's was "Play more Wii games and skip school". What a goof-ball!

Jill reads off one of the New Year's Resolutions and Will starts to make some noise:


Brian is coiled and excited to ring in the New Year:


The kids are poised with their noisemakers as we count down to the New Year - in Santiago, Chile (that's 9pm Central Standard Time).


And it didn't bother the kids that it wasn't "our" New Year - they had a blast making noise, throwing streamers and drinking their "bubbly".