2012 has arrived!

We spend January 1 walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list of work to be done, cracks to be patched. Maybe this year, to balance the list, we ought to walk through the rooms of our lives... not looking for flaws, but for potential. ~Ellen Goodman

2012
We kept our tradition of burning our yule-log(s) that is made of last year's Christmas tree.

We also (along with our friends who rang in the new year with us) each wrote a regret, disappointment, or other thought and attached it underneath the twine. Into the fire it all went, as we bid them adieu with aspirations of better things to come, and no more fretting over things of the past.
New year, fresh beginnings.

Fresh cut collard greens.

Hard and uncooked black eyed peas.
About 8 hours later we had a delicious southern meal to bring good luck our way in 2012.

Enough already!
Between Christmas, New Years, the boys on Winter break for 2 weeks, lots of friends and family in-and-out, etc., Harry is ready to get back to his old routine.
Here's to hope for good things in 2012!