Sorry to hear that some of you had a difficult 2017... Take care!
My new year started really good, can't complain. We had a Christmas - new year holiday in Europe! It's very beautiful there on these dates. We flew to Paris (my wife relatives live close to Paris, then drove down to south of France and then Spain. The last stop was
this amazing villa in Barcelona for 4 days and then back home. Kids were impressed too. Many families with kids travel at this time of the year in Europe (at least in Spain), so they had some company (which was a relief
)