I worked on New Year’s Eve. It was nice because there were very few people in the office and the two deals we were chasing both came in to cap off an incredibly good quarter. Max on my team had a deal push which means that he will get a single promotion, not a double promotion, but I think he’ll get the next promotion by April because he performed so strongly this quarter.
While I was at work, Lydia and Mary wanted to make a tea party. Lily told them that if they were going to do that, they would need to clean up after themselves 100%. And amazingly, after their tea party, they spent the next hour responsibly cleaning up and doing dishes. What great girls!
It was so nice to get home a bit early and spend the evening with the family. I was so wiped out so I spent the first hour or so on the couch resting. Around 6:00 we had a wonderful meal that Lily prepared. Amazing crab from Harmon’s, mussels, roasted potatoes and broccoli, and chocolate chip cookies for desert.
We passed the evening by playing games as a family (race to the treasure), resting (me), reading (Lily and Georgia) and just being together.
I’ll make a brief note that Lily has been sharing a lot with me about what she is learning In Sacred Loneliness. It is actually super sad and depressing. Polygamy ruined so many lives, especially when it was practiced in its worst form, where the man did not take care of some or most of his wives at all or where very young women were thrown into marriage and sexual relations far before they would have elected to on their own without pressure or threat of damnation. Unfortunately, some of the worst examples of how polygamy was practiced came right from Joseph Smith and Brigham Young. Such messes in the LDS history. Very sad.
Mary lasted until 11:40 PM. When I woke her up at 11:55 to bang the pots for New Years, she seemingly almost rallied and then said sleepily, “no, I don’t want to do that.”
Ammon and Lydia, on the other hand, were still going strong. At mignight we went to the front porch and bang butter knives on pot lids and pans to ring in the New Year. For a moment I thought someone other family also had this tradition (which I think we picked up from the Barlow’s in our old coldesac), but then I realized I was just hearing the ehcos of our own pots and pans, haha. Anyway, it’s a fun tradition.
Happy New Year!