Wishing you a Healthy & Happy New Year!

Posted on December 27, 2025 by jjspina

Well, we survived our two Christmas gatherings and now we look forward to the New Year. With God’s help we will survive another year with good health and the love of family and friends.

I pray that you all had a wonderful and blessed Christmas and are staying healthy for the New Year. We have had a few family members with minor colds and flu but they will soon mend.

Here are some photos of our feast and a visit from Santa. The tables filled up with more goodies later on but I captured it earlier. We had plenty to eat and are still eating leftovers. Time to freeze them all except the cookies! Dieting will come after the New Year! Sigh!

A woman and Santa Claus pose together for a photo in a cozy setting filled with festive decor.
Santa Claus reading a book while sitting in a cozy living room, decorated for the holidays.
A woman with long gray hair and a man with short gray hair pose happily together in a cozy indoor setting. The woman is wearing a light-colored sweater and black pants, while the man is in a green Celtics sweatshirt and blue jeans. The background includes home decor and a television.
A smiling woman poses for a selfie with Santa Claus, who is wearing a traditional red suit and a white beard. They are in a festive setting with holiday decorations in the background.
Santa Claus wearing a red suit and carrying a large white sack, walking down the stairs.
A festive table setting featuring a variety of holiday treats including chocolate brownies, pastries, and a decorated dish with cream. The table is adorned with a holiday centerpiece and candles.
A festive holiday table adorned with a red tablecloth featuring Christmas decorations, displaying various covered dishes, a slow cooker, and lit candles.
Decorated Christmas cookies in various shapes, including Christmas trees and ornaments, showcased on two plates.
A festive Christmas tree-shaped dessert topped with almonds, chopped cherries, and a light pink frosting, placed on a dark granite countertop.

It was wonderful seeing all the family together minus the ones who were sick. We only see each other a few times a year like this. Our times together are precious but exhausting for the older ones (John & I). We are hanging in there and doing our best with the help of the stronger and younger men in the family to help move and lift tables and heft things back upstairs. All had a wonderful time especially when Santa visited and gave each child a gift and all the adults got a scratch ticket.

I hope your gatherings were filled with joy, love and plenty of family and friends and of course food!

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Happy New Year – Abby & Holly
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Happy New Year – Davey & Derek
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Blessings & Hugs! Stay Safe, Stay Well and God Bless!

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Janice is a multi-award-winning author with 50 books: 23 children's books for PS-Gr 4, 12 middle-grade/preteen, four young adult books, all written by Janice Spina, and nine novels, and two short story collections written by J.E. Spina. She is also a writer of poetry, blogger, avid reader, reviewer, copy editor and supporter of her fellow authors. Janice has always loved writing and started young writing poetry, then stories. Her books have received 50 Book Awards and a few finalists awards, and many 5-star reviews from Readers’ Favorite Book Awards and on Amazon. All Janice's books are available on Amazon.com in paperback, eBook and audiobook formates, B&N and other online book sites. Her hobbies are crocheting, sewing, walking to keep fit, hula hooping, tap dancing, going to dinner with her husband, and spending time with family and friends. Janice loves to hear from readers and appreciates reviews. Sign up on her blog http://jemsbooks.blog for updates of her books. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband who is her illustrator and cover creator and two tanks of fish.
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6 Responses to Wishing you a Healthy & Happy New Year!

  1. noelleg44's avatar noelleg44 says:
    December 27, 2025 at 11:56 am

    We’ve had both kids and their families here since Tuesday and yesterday my brother and his family joined us. I’ve never made food for 13 before! Today is much more peaceful. Happy New Year and lots of book sales!

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    • jjspina's avatar jjspina says:
      December 27, 2025 at 2:32 pm

      Thank you, Noelle. I know it is difficult the more you have to cook for. We had plenty of family here for two different days. We are still exhausted. Tonight we are going out with my son and three grandsons. One grandson who I didn’t see at Christmas. More eating!!! Dieting next week!
      Tomorrow John’s sister is coming over! Yikes! More cooking and eating!!! Haha!

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  3. Michele Rolfe's avatar Michele Rolfe says:
    December 27, 2025 at 2:46 pm

    Happy New Year!! It looks like y’all had a wonderful Christmas. My sister, my hubby & I all went to my daughter & son-in-law’s home (along with my 10 yr old granddaughter) Christmas Eve where we all exchanged gifts from each other & had a wonderful Ham meal.

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