Here Come the Irish.....

Okay, we were all ready!  Notre Dame undefeated and in the National Championship Game.  They have one of the best players on the country playing for them.  It's going to be great!

We are all ready for the big game, we have the plate, napkins, etc.  We all have Notre Dame t-shirts.  We have a great basement and TV to watch the game, food is ordered all we need is the game.

All the foodie goodies - hot wings, mac n cheese, cookies, eclairs, etc.

Well, we quickly learned that last thing we needed was the game.  Alabama beat down Notre Dame.  It wasn't pretty.  It was bad, pretty much exactly what we hoped wouldn't happen, worse case scenario.  Oh well, I guess we will save the plates for next season.

New Year, Same Story

If I looked back on my blog at the last two New Year's, it would be the same story...someone is sick.  And guess what, this year once again, we had to cancel our party plans because of sickness.  Really?  A couple of us were under the weather but I was the worst this time.  I honestly don't remember much of what we did.

I do know our little family just stayed home bundled up on the couch to ring in the New Year.  Welcome to 2013!

A few days later, the YW had a long scheduled overnight retreat.  Unfortunately, I still wasn't feeling better but I really couldn't bail on the two other leaders.  One of my awesome counselors hosted the retreat at her house.  All the girls slept in the basement and I got to sleep upstairs in a room all to myself, so it wasn't too bad.  The retreat was a new and fun activity.  We had not done anything like this before.  It was a great way to start the New Year, focus on the mutual theme and set goals for Personal Progress, as well as eat and have good time.