APPROACHING THE NEW YEAR WITH LOVE AND WINTER SPARKLE

In these crisp days after Christmas, all my grandchildren will be together for winter fun (if the weather is not too severe in this part of Canada). It will be a time for sledding down hills of their grandparents community and skating on the frozen lake near our little house. 

Grandma will have hot chocolate and baked goodies waiting for them in front of a crackling fire in our fireplace you see behind me at the top of the HumanLifeMatters blog. To usher in the New Year, perhaps we will have a small house party for the Pickup family. 

Other people will usher in the New Year in much grander style like the the video below of Andre Rieu and his Johann Strauss Orchestra playing the classic Beautiful Blue Danube at the Empress Sisi's castle, Schonbrunn Palace, in Austria, and dancers from the Austrian Elmayer Dance School.
[Click on image below or at this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDaJ7rFg66A