Happy Family Day!

City News Everywhere has a list of what’s open and closed today.

Happy Chinese New Year!

Apartment therapy in consultation with party planners proposes 10 tips for being a good host.

They include:

• Focus on your guests
• Minimize your responsibilities
• Write down everything
• Capture the memories
• Don’t forget the kids
• Plan a delicious – and realistic – menu
• Give guests plenty of notice
• Make it easy for guests to enjoy themselves
• Donèt sweat the small stuff
• Set out little touches for overnight stays

Details here.

Well winter officially arrived yesterday evening, at 10:27pm to be precise. So this is a good post for the first full day of winter. I call winter my 4th favourite season. And in 4th place it will stay BUT perhaps attitude and activities can help make it more palatable.