Hapy New Year!

You know what one of my pet peeves is? When people invite you to dinner, you accept, and then they ask you to bring a dish. I'm not talking about a potluck, or a situation where everyone has agreed one person will host and everyone else will pitch in. Those are acceptable. Like when I was on maternity leave, we used to do lunches at each other's houses, and we'd all bring something. It was a communal thing.

But if you invite me to a dinner party, do not ask me to bring a salad! And especially do not ask me two days beforehand when the interim day is a stat holiday. I hate having to do an unplanned grocery trip on a day when I'd planned to loll about and stare at my two-year old all day.

D has this compulsion. He will OFFER to bring something. It's like a disease for him. You can't invite him anywhere before he's offering to bring something and then agreeing to make 25 canapes. I'm always standing next to him waving my hands in front of my throat to say "DON'T DO IT!"

Anyway, maybe these sorts of uncharitable thoughts are why I'm spending my New Year's deliciously, lazily, devouring a book. We recently started "reducing" LM's nap, which means he's actually asleep at a decent hour (read: before 10:30) and I have all this wonderful free time in the evening. It's even worth not having the looooong break mid-day. Tonight, D fell asleep with him too and I'm still wondering whether to wake him up, or just to fall into my own bed all alone and greet 2010 in the morning.

To the rest of you, Happy New Year!