Happy New Year Hodgepodge!!

Happy new year and many thanks to our hostess, Joyce, for this first (of many this year) Wednesday Hodgepodge posts!  Click on her 'button' below and join in the fun! 

Hodgepodge Questions-Volume 292

Happy New Year Hodgepodgers and welcome to 2017! Raise your hand if you love a fresh start-clean slate. I have a lot of fun travel on my January calendar so will need to make one small adjustment to our Hodgepodge schedule this month, and that's this-no Hodgepodge next week (January 11th). In spite of all my comings and goings I think I can manage to make the rest of the Wednesdays happen.

Okay, we're here today so let's go...answer on your own blog, then slide back here tomorrow and add your link to the party. See you there!

1. Share one favorite moment/memory from your Christmas holiday.  We had our youngest son, Jeff, with us for the first (and now only) Christmas at our current home in Florida.  Twenty-seven Christmases without having him with us.  Blame his job and Safeway Stores for not being generous with letting employees off during busy holidays.  He is a meat manager and sometimes has Christmas day off, but they are just too busy leading up to Christmas to make it reasonable for him to travel to Florida. We were thrilled to have him with us!!  Now perhaps we can get him down next year to spend a first Christmas in our new home with us!

2. What was the best thing you ate over the holidays?  Everything I ate during the holidays was good. Was it homemade or store bought?  I made a delicious ham with all the trimmings for Christmas dinner.  It turned out well, if I do say so myself.  If it was homemade did you make it?  I also made two kinds of candy that were both very good.

3. What was one of the most beautiful things you saw over the holidays?  The little children's Christmas play at church.  We had to go to the family Mass at 4:00 on Christmas eve, because we had to get to the airport in Tampa to pick up our son.  The little ones are SO precious!!

4. What does fresh start mean to you?  This year, for us, it means moving into a new house to begin a fresh start leading to my retirement this summer!

5. On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being very positive and 1 being not so great) how would you rate 2016 in terms of personal achievement and well being? Explain.  An 8, I think.  Joe recovered so well from his strokes which was a personal achievement for both of us, actually - as well as our well being.

6. Every January 1st since 1976 Lake Superior University has published a list of words they'd like to see banished from the Queen's English. Words may be banished due to misuse, overuse, or just general uselessness. Go here to read more about how the words were chosen or, if you're like me, to find out what in the world the word or phrase even means or the context in which it's used. There were quite a few on this year's list I'd never heard before.

Here's the 2017 list of banished words-

You, Sir-focus-Bete Noire-Town Hall Meeting-Post Truth-guesstimate-831-historic-manicured-echo chamber-on fleek-bigly-ghost-Dadbod-listicle-get your dander up-selfie drone-frankenfruit-disruption

Which word on the list would you most like to see banished in 2017?  I can't think of one word that bugged me this year.  What word or phrase would you add to the list? I haven't even heard of some of those!  Must have had my head buried.  I've got nothing to add.

7. Large or small, light or deep, share with us one goal you have for the new year.  LARGE!!  We have to clean out a house we've lived in for almost 28 years and get ready to move! Huge!

8. Insert your own random thought here.  God's got this. I know He does. It will all work out in His time.  Your prayers for us are appreciated!

Thanks for your visit today!  Happy Wednesday!  Peace & hugs!