A happy and healthy New Year to everyone.

Exciting folk that we are, we spent New Year’s Eve on the couch eating snacks and watching movies. We were in bed by 11:00pm and awake and out of bed by 8am.

It was a beautiful, unseasonably warm New Year’s day so we hopped in the car and took off for Putnam and southerly parts of Dutchess county. We drove around exploring back roads and getting the lay of the land. Work will permit me to relocate my desk to the Westchester office so we’re considering moving again. The idea of getting back to the Mid-Hudson has been on our minds lately.

Now that everyone in the family knows, I can reveal that this will be the last New Years Maria and I spend together for a while… alone that is. We are having a baby! Well, properly, she is- my part in this was easy so far. I can’t even begin to describe how happy I am and a little worried.

Life in 2005 is going to be a bit more complicated.