Hi, lovelies.

Happy new year! I want to once again share much your loyalty and encouragement has mean to me.

While 2024 turned out to involve more health challenges and emotional and political speed bumps, your sweetness and good humor made it all so much better. I confess I’m not feeling terribly optimistic for 2025, but I am grateful we’ll get through it together. I raise a glass to you all and hope for happy, healthy, successful, peaceful new year.

Okay, time for our annual New Year’s song. Sing along if you know the words!

My dear acquaintance, it’s so good to know you
For strength of your hand
That is loving and giving
And a happy new year
With love overflowing
With joy in our hearts
For the blessed new year

Raise your glass and we’ll have a cheer
For us all who are gathered here
And a happy new year to all that is living
To all that is gentle, kind, and forgiving
Raise your glass and we’ll have a cheer
My dear acquaintance, a happy new year

All of those who are hither and yonder
With love in our hearts
We grow fonder and fonder
Hail to those who we hold so dear
And hail to those who are gathered here

And a happy new year to all that is living
To all that is gentle, young, and forgiving
Raise your glass and we’ll have a cheer
My dear acquaintance, a happy new year
Happy new year!

Written by Peggy Lee and Paul William Roger Horner

Happy New Year, my darlings.

Much love,
Donna