Happy New Year!!!

Jim and friend Tom at midnight, fooling around!!

And we have snow!!! Lots of it! I'd say 8 or 9 inches, maybe 10!! Hope to try out the toboggan later today. And here is daredevil Liz jumping off her perch at the top of the play structure.

Below is our accumulated snow on the patio table.

I also thank the Lord on this day for the gift of His mother. Mary, mother of God, please pray for us and our families.

What an awesome, unfathomable title-- "mother of God." And yet she is.

I will post more resolutions later but here is an important one-- Say the rosary as a family more often, with a goal of every day.