[springfield]

We like to have friends over on New Year's Day for brunch. Each person gets a slip of paper for their ashes of regrets. They write down anything they did during the year that they regret then we burn them. It is a way of letting go of negatives. Then we write down our wishes and hopes for the coming year and seal them in an envelop. We will give them back this new year's day. They aren't resolutions, just things we hope will happen. I think I wrote that I hoped our daughter and son-in-law would sell their WA house and buy the one they wanted in CO Springs, which did happen. I'll have to wait to open my envelop to see what else I hoped for.

Our brunch last year consisted of "lucky" food. It was fun researching the different foods around the world that bring luck.