Eve of a New Year!

At the beginning of 2011, I told Adam it would be the Year of the Sbinks (that's our unofficial hybrid name). There's no question that the whole year rocked our worlds. We were happier and healthier than we've been in a long time, awed and overcome by newness and novelty and gratified by the good fortune and great planning that planted us in such incredible lives.

Yet ...

... now I feel that 2012, too, will be a Year of the Sbinks. Here's to going two for two!

We rang in the new year in grand style with Kevin and Sarah (two of our dearest DC friends) and help from a big pot of homemade curry, soft Vermont cheese, six bottles of cold stout, Scotch on the rocks, Prosecco, Champagne, G&Ts, rye and ginger, red wine, Adam's new Xbox Kinect, a massive party at the storied Omni Shoreham Hotel, Father Time (on stilts! with a baby doll!), a midnight balloon drop and fat, stinky cigars.

Bring on the big! 2012, we're coming for you.