2010 comes in with a bang!

Originally posted on 1/1/10

My neighbors love fireworks more than anyone in the world. They never disappoint when it comes to fireworks! Last night they rang in 2010 with their customary exuberance as you can see in the video. Teddy tried to stay up to midnight, but only made it to about 10:00. The fireworks woke him up at midnight and he ran out and watched them. Teddy loves fireworks almost as much as our neighbors! Luckily, he fell right back to sleep.

We were thinking back to our New Year's Eve 10 years ago, when Teddy was just 2 months old. We were both sick with some type of flu, felt horrible and we both had high fevers. Teddy had just had an operation a few days before to place his central line and he was getting all of his nourishment through a TPN bag. The line on the bag kept getting clogged and we had to reposition the bag and line almost continually to keep it flowing. So we took turns in 2 hour shifts staying awake that night and into New Year's Day. This wasn't how we imagined ringing in the new millennium! We kept thinking of our friends who were celebrating under the Eiffel Tower in Paris that night and we were upset that our former, carefree lives had changed so radically. The years have really changed us. Now we would rather spend New Year's Eve with Ted and watch our neighbor's fireworks than be anywhere in the world! Looking back, we are extremely thankful to have made it 10 years with Teddy; our odds didn't look so good back then. It really puts his "red zone" behavior that we deal with periodically in perspective.