As 2018 is off to a running start (and we haven’t had any great adventures yet), I’m going to post a little bit more from the holidays.

As I said in my last post, we came home for a couple of days to recoup from our long drive.  We spent Christmas Eve and Christmas at home.  It was a nice, although quiet, holiday.

The day after Christmas we made the trek to North Carolina for some time with my in-laws.  We took Audie, but left the cats at home.

We had a great time.  We got to meet Opie the new dog and see some familiar faces with their kitties, Nikki and Dixie.

While there, we went out to the Nantahala National Forest and visited the Curahee Brewing Company.

All in all it was a nice visit after a long time away.  We always find something fun to do out there and it’s awesome to be away from our usual suburban life.

We came home for New Year’s Eve.  As we do every year, we saw a movie, had dinner, and came home for the countdown with the furbutts.

It might not seem like anything great, but those little traditions of matching jammies in front of the tree and a movie on NYE mean a lot to me.  With this crazy lifestyle, it’s great to hold on to a few things from my childhood (like watching the original Grinch on Christmas Eve) and mix them with new traditions for this little Waid clan.

2017 didn’t exactly go as planned and we certainly didn’t make time for as many adventures as we would have liked, but it was one to remember and it paved the way for a better 2018. Here’s to a new year and here’s to hoping I have more adventures to post.

Until then,

 

Cheers!

–A. xoxo