A Christmas Toast to Friendship

We opted not to have our big Christmas blowout party this year.  With Thanksgiving falling to late in November, and with the house hunt consuming our weekends - we couldn't pull it together this year.  And that was totally fine with us.  But we couldn't kick off the season without SOME KIND of celebration with our friends.

During Christmas, we are all inundated with business outings and pressures that come along with closing the year out - so the season tends to just pass us by unless you take a time out - preferably with your favorite friends.  So instead of the big partay chez Mobley, we had just 7 of our close friends over to have the opposite of a party - we just had a little mini cocktail celebration to kick off the season.  It was a time to raise a glass to another fantastic year of friendship.  A pause to hug and sing a Christmas carol with some of the people who have been the heart and soul of our New York family unit.

As they have so many years before, the boys ventured onto the patio for cigar time, we gathered around the kitchen table to catch up on the latest news in everyone's lives, Mike made his famously lethal eggnog, and we finally closed our apartment doors during the wee hours of the morning the next day.

Thank you to those who were able to stop by on such short notice.  Regardless of the smaller scale of attendees this year, it was still the most festive night of our entire New York Christmas season.  Once we have a house next year, I assure you friends, the Mobleys will return to our large scale Christmas bash!  I'm already starting the planning for 2015!