{"id":2454,"date":"2015-12-31T09:21:37","date_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/?p=2454"},"modified":"2015-12-31T09:21:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-31T17:21:37","slug":"happy-new-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2015\/12\/31\/happy-new-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy New Year!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/new-year-fireworks-champagne-glasses-vector-59219592.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2455\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2455\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/new-year-fireworks-champagne-glasses-vector-59219592.jpg?resize=270%2C160\" alt=\"new-year-fireworks-champagne-glasses-vector-59219592\" width=\"270\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>I can hardly believe it&#8217;s already time to wish all of you a very Happy New Year, with all good things to come your way! If you&#8217;re interested in that sort of thing, I have just received some statistics from WordPress about the visitors to this blog: which of my posts were most viewed, how many different places people came from, etc. I suspect it&#8217;s more interesting to me than to you, but here&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/jetpack.me\/annual-report\/82121282\/2015\/\" target=\"_blank\">a link<\/a> in case you&#8217;d like to look.<\/p>\n<p>My family had such a lovely Christmas! It was fairly quiet (except during the gift opening &#8212; LOL!), but we were all together for most of it, and that&#8217;s the most important thing. \ud83d\ude42 We usually open our gifts to each other at my home with Christmas breakfast, but this year we &#8220;did&#8221; the gifts the night before at our daughter&#8217;s home; this was in order to have everyone together, as two of our grandsons were scheduled to spend Christmas with their father. Whatever works, right? 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