Dad trained his body all week by staying up later and later every night. Like a marathon runner trains for a race by running as far as possible a few days before the race, dad trained by keeping himself up to watch the 11pm news. He knew if he could make it through the news he could make it to the balldrop. By Friday night he was able to make it through the news and catch the beginning of Late Night with David Letter. He was now prepared for New Year's Eve 2006.
The night was spent at Kelly and Dave's house. We brought Charlotte. Lisa and Ryan brought Colin. All of the kids played together for hours exhausting themselves. The adults mixed cocktails and gorged themselves on appetizers (last chance before the resolutions get set). Unfortunately we brought a digital camera with a dead battery so we have no evidence of the evening or that mom and dad actually stayed awake until Midnight. Not to worry. Pictures will be up once Lisa and Kelly email them to us. We will provide proof that 'old man Ronan rocked in the new year like everyone else...watching Dick Clarks ball drop then watching Rhianna shaking her ass out of her skirt on national television.
Around midnight the reality set in that Charlotte would be awake in six hours. Around 1am panic started setting in for dad since he agreed to be the one to get up with her. At 1:30am we made it home and into bed. 4 and a half hours later dad woke up to the angelic sound of his daughter vying for his attention. First a whimper...dad rolls over and pretends he didn't hear it. Then another whimper. Louder and louder until it turns into a full on cry. The sound piercing the pillow over his head like a knife in the eye. Reluctantly he got out of bed, made a bottle, got her out of the crib, then it was downstairs to "play". Good thing he didn't do those Tequila shots that Kelly was trying to talk him into at midnight. Good thing he didn't take swigs of Jameson like Ryan did. There would have been no getting out of bed.
Mom finally rolled out of bed around 9am. She came downstairs to find Charlotte sitting on dad's lap intently watching Elmo on Sesame Street in dads arms on the couch. They got dressed then headed back down the street to Kelly and Daves to catch the early breakfast special.
When they returned around noon, Charlotte went right down for a nap. Dad layed on the bed to "rest" and was asleep in seconds. Mom joined him. Nothing better then a two hour New Years day nap. Even when they all woke up the napping idea seemed like a lot of fun. Dad figured he would grab every pillow in the house and put then on the floor in the living room for
Here is a picture of the painted Kitchen. We still need new appliances, but its a start:
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