The New Year (2011)

I started off the New Year by zzzzzzzz......yep. First time in our lives probably that we crossed over from 2010 to 2011 in bed, asleep. Well, trying to get some sleep. It was a working day on New Year's Eve and by the time the dust of our family chores had settled, it was already 10pm, which meant we had 2 hours to sleep before midnite and another 2 hours before we had to go pick up my mum from the airport (back from her month long holiday). This would give us at least 4 hours of pretend sleep. Aiyah, we were trying to get some zzzzz cos hubs and I were driving off to Malaysia at 5 am (which we did, on time, by the way)! We learnt from mistakes of the past. We used to stay up the whole night packing and getting ready for our road trips up North that we wouldn't have enough sleep and would feel so tired upon reaching our destination!

This New Year's Eve in bed, didn't really miss the partying, makan or bubbly with friends and acquaintances which usually accompanied our crossing over to the new year. Felt really good to have peace and quiet and some rest instead. Teen daughter was staying over at her pal's place, teen son was going to stay up all night on his computer. So before I turned off our room lights, I set my alarm clockS (yes, there're 3 of them) for 2 am. Then tiredly told my son to come wish us at midnight so I'd know it was the New Year (hee hee). Poor chap. When he came in excitedly at midnight, we were so groggy, I shushed him up cos his dad was busy snoring.

We had a great start to the New Year, the Mr and myself on that road trip. We have to take another one again this weekend but unfortunately for a more sombre reason; a funeral.