My New Year's Day

This is how I spent my New Year's Day. :)

This morning after the usual chores, I started taking down the Christmas tree and putting away the ornaments. Of course, that's in between taking care of the kids and cleaning the house here and there, LOL. Before lunch time, my husband and I suggested we go out and cruise around, and treat ourselves to a nice lunch somewhere.

We ended up in Addison, a nice little city of itself here in Dallas. It's a little upscale commercial place with all kinds of fancy and not-so-fancy little restaurants and quaint little shops, just about 10 miles where we live. So anyways, I was craving for some hot Asian soup (think wonton or egg drop soup) since I still had a little cold. After about an hour of driving around the main strip of Addison we settled for a laid-back little Chinese restaurant called May Dragon. I had the "Five Flavor Shrimp" with my wonton soup and steamed rice. My husband had a "Smoked Duck" with his. We were satisfied, although not totally. I guess my husband and I are a little 'spoiled' since at the time we still live in Houston, we used to check out all types of cuisines and fancy restaurants there. (This was before the kids, LOL). Houston (Texas) is very famous with having the best eats and the many varieties of restaurants you can find! :)

Anyways, I was checking out the May Dragon Restaurant's decor and I noticed in one corner of the room was a red banner that said, "The only 4-star Chinese restaurant in Dallas". Hmmm, so I guess we didn't make a bad choice anyways. Besides the good food, we liked the quiet, laid-back ambience. The place wasn't crowded too and we were seated in a big four-seat table in the middle corner of one room. It was a conducive little corner fit for one stroller, two diaper bags and a slightly restless toddler. Over all, we enjoyed our meal and the time together.

Afterwards, we went to get some grocery items at the Walmart store a few blocks down our house.

This evening, after I put our kiddos to sleep, I will try and finish putting away the Christmas stuff. Then get ready for tomorrow, and call it a night. Hopefully I'll be in bed before midnight, as this is actually one of my New Year's resolutions--is to get at least five hours of sleep at night. Huh! Lucky me! ;)