Here are three ways to help families visualize their goals: 1. Create a wishing tree. Have family members inscribe thoughts on colorful ribbons. Tie ribbons to a barren winter tree. Listen to ribbons whisper their messages as they flutter in wind.

2. Cast your wishes to wind. Using a permanent marker, write your goals on Mylar pinwheels. Place them in a bank of snow and declare your goals to world.

3. Greet New Year’s guests with good wishes for coming year. Write your resolutions or greetings on small slips of paper and package them in empty walnut shells along with small chocolates. Place a bowl of these diminutive gifts near front door or at end of a buffet line for a surprise treat.

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Even meats can be purchased, Goya Chorizos (sausages), Pamplona Mussels in Brine, Pamplona Octopus in Oil and Sauce. For dessert, there is Goya Flan, Majarete and Tembleque . Enjoy a variety of Gilda and La Estrella crackers and cookies with a cup of your favorite coffee or tea.

Declare an International Food night and include Cuban dish below.

Spanish Sausage and Peppers 1 Goya Chorizo Sausage Olive Oil 1 Pepper (Your choice of sweet, red, cayenne, chili, etc.) Sherry vinegar Fresh parsley, roughly chopped Chop sausage into bite size chunks. Put olive oil into a frying pan and fry sausage on high heat. Let fat from sausage come out into oil. Cut pepper into bite size squares. Turn sausage and add pepper to pan. Add a splash of vinegar and parsley and then mix everything. Skewer pieces of sausage and pepper with toothpicks and put onto a warm plate and serve.