Ryan's first "all nighter"

When I was in college, I relished the ability to pull "all nighters." I felt like it was just something you did when you were in college. Plus, it worked well with my tendency to procrastinate and my ability to work well under pressure. I'd wait until the night before, say, an eight page paper on discontinuities was due...drink lots of coffee and park myself in front of the computer, with Friends re-runs playing (low volume) in the background.

And though it will be quite some time until Ryan is living in an off-campus apartment, with no insulation (or right angles) and a couple of roomates, he didn't have to wait very long to pull his first all nighter, courtesy of NYE 2012.

After spending the rest of the Christmas week up in PA with Grandma and Grandpa, the kids (and grandparents) came back home on NYE morning. We had a somewhat impromptu party and I told Ryan he could stay up this year (since trying to wake him at midnight last year didn't work out so well). I never, in a million years, thought he would actually stay awake until the ball dropped.

But with easy access to the party food and unending screen time on Grandma's iPad...Rye was in for the long haul.

His reward? Sparkling cider for our midnight toast and kisses from a bunch of lovely ladies who adore him to pieces.