Cleanup

Ah, the day after a fantastic New Year’s Eve party. The day where it seems difficult to do anything but sit around and be lazy, but alas, there is cleaning to do.

Last night we had a few friends over and then a few more we didn’t think would be able to make it came too. Having guests bring stuff makes for a fantastic spread. We decided to host another fondue party, both cheese and chocolate. Figuring that since we’ve had a chocolate fondue pot for a year and a half without ever even taking it out of the box, it was time to do something with it. Not only is chocolate fondue much less temperamental than cheese, the dipping choices we had were evenly split between sweet and savory, such as potato chips, pretzel sticks, French baguette cubes, coconut macaroons, apples, pears and biscotti. Super delicious and will definitely be employed for further party use!

But today we have to cleanup. Fortunately since it was all finger foods and, even though we had small festive plates for people to use, only one person did. The rest of us simply had a drink in one hand and ate with the other right off the platters or our dipping sticks. In fact, a majority of our cleaning is glasses and stemware, so cleanup should be a breeze. Well, except for a little vomit. Our friends’s dog got a bit sick around two in the morning. I guess I gave him a few too many dog treats. Fortunately it was all contained to the sofa quilt I made for our dog, so it just needs to be thrown into the wash.

We’ve also decided it is time to put Christmas away. As much as I’d like to keep it up until January 6th, the tree just takes up way too much space. Oh, how I wish we had a bay window for it instead! So goodbye North Pole Village. Goodbye Christmas tree. Goodbye 2010 and hello 2011. May you be much kinder than your predecessor.