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It is 2023, the year of the Rabbit in the Chinese calendar, which will officially begin on January 22. Rabbits jump high so our highs will be very high and our lows will be very low.

Never mind all that.

I wish you a boring year. May you have as few up and downs as possible and may your rabbit be lazy and gentle and take naps instead of running in panic. May your carrots be plentiful and sweet and your nests soft and warm. Let this be a year we all rest and rebuild after the trials of the previous two.

Happy New Year!

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  4. ????Bonne Année 2023 to HA, modR and BDH!
    May it be a healthy and boring, yet exciting year!
    May the Moirae kind to all of us!

  6. May we dwell in dullness and monotony, absent from war, economic vagaries and political unrest; let out lives be staid and steady and our friends and families safe in their homes. From our lips to any and all gods listening.
    And let’s all cross our fingers and toes and ask super nicely because I’m not feeling that confident for at least two of those in 2023.
    Happy New Year.

  8. Thank you! I am born in the year of the Rabbit, and I second your wishes for this year coming. The last one was really hard on our family, and I need a better year. I hope you and yours also have a good year, and thank you for your outstanding books. I truly appreciate stepping into your world.

  9. Hau’oli Makahiki Hou!! Hoping that 2023 is boring and safe.

    Also, Hau’oli Lā Hānau to Ilona!! I hope your day is filled with joy, love, and laughter.

  10. Happy New Year may your year have gentle breezes and stress free days,warm nights a d loads of loving ❤ family ???? around you ❤ ????

  13. Happy new year! Wishing you health and happiness for 2023.
    And happy birthday! It is my birthday too, and it is quite nice that so many people stay up until midnight every year to wish us a a happy birthday!!!!

  14. Thank you. I wish you much happiness, inspiration, creativity, and abundant appreciation of others toward your efforts.

    I am a water rabbit, according to the Chinese calendar.

    My 2023 is not looking much better than 2022. We started right after Christmas with the news that our Texas son’s brain tumor, which has been growing very slowly after the first surgery in 2019, is suddenly growing very quickly. A consultation with the surgeon is on January 10th. We both will fly out for the surgery, but my husband will be the one to stay with him for weeks afterward. I would gladly do it, but my husband says it is his turn. I will watch our disabled daughter at home.

    So we need health for Ryan, and jobs for son Aaron and son in law Jeremy.

    Being able to play with 3 of our grandchildren daily, while Debbie and Jeremy live in our guest house, is no hardship. But they do need money coming in.

    Aaron and Samie need to get out of California, so the closing of the medical laboratories where he worked for 7 years is not necessarily bad, but it is a scary time when they have a new baby. He has multiple job offers and he will choose one when they get their home in Palmdale fixed up and rented out.

    Life has been weird the past few years. Deaths and births. Drastic surgeries which have gone well. Our farm was a forced sale by the state but they paid us well for it. Our business burned down but insurance paid well for it. Do we laugh or cry?

    Bring it on.

  15. Happy New Year, and heaps of thanks and appreciation for all the stories that have made this last year better.

  17. I also wish you and your family and Mod R a happy, boring quiet on the real life drama, plentiful on the drama in your different book worlds; year 🙂

  21. If only my rabbits would quit digging holes in my front yard. My riding mower and I would appreciate it.

  23. best new year wishes I read so far. since it is year of water rabbit, may it flow gentle and calm.

  25. Happy New Year!

    May Mr McGregor’s Garden offer no temptations (especially with your new game to play!) as this year goes forward!

    You could always ask Orro to bake the BDH into a pie if they annoy you….I’m sure Caldenia would give it a try!

  26. Happy (or hippty-hoppy) New Year to everyone! Happy belated birthday to Ilona!

    No matter what happens this year, at least we have great books to read and devour by the fluffy horde. No bunnies were harmed in the making of the fluffy horde. 😀

    As Bugs Bunny would say “Eh, what’s up doc?”

  28. Wishing you a year of:
    great health 身體健康;
    lots of energy 龍馬精神;
    safe travels 出入平安;
    happiness 笑口常看！

  29. Happy New Year House Andrews and all the team, and to all of my fellow BDH members I wish you all the calm, health and happiness to respond to everything that the new year brings

  35. Yes!! Here’s to the Year of the Rabbit! May it be snuggly and kind and full of good for all of us.

  36. This is exactly why we all love House Andrews so much. That is the best Happy New Year wish I have ever seen – so perfect for this time!

  39. Absolutely!!! Brilliantly written, as always. Thank you from me and all my aspiring-to-be lazy rabbits. May your years be also filled with well-deserved sweet carrots and soft warm nests.

  40. About 15 years ago, I was driving home from work on New Year’s Eve.
    Stopped at a Stoplight, looked over, and I’m sitting right next to a cop car, with the prescribed single occupant.
    After a moment of thought, I rolled down my window, and waved my hands in the “Roll down your window so we can talk” gesture.
    “Yes?”
    “I wish for you and all of your friends, a very boring New Year’s Eve!”
    As the light turned green & i started off, he got the biggest grin, and shouted “Thank you!”

    • My husband is law enforcement and they hope for this every holiday season! You were dead right on this.

  41. I wish you a boring year as well. I used to have a house rabbit. She was well content to lay around and snarfel the broccoli and radish treats. She never met a foot she didn’t want to curl up next to. She occasionally thumped her back foot, but to her, that was an entirely sufficient level of enthusiasm. She loved her cat, and me, and that was enough for her. May we be like her.

  42. Well said! Thank you for that. The past year was just… hard. Books were my escape as well as my salvation. A calm year, without the Space Mountain roller coaster type up and downs would be very welcome!
    Happy new year!

  43. Happy New Year! Thank you for your wishes of a boring year; I cherish them. I, too, wish House Andrews and all the BDH a boring year. May your nests be calm, your carrots tasty, and your books to read plentiful.

  44. I am a wood rabbit and so this is an unlucky year for me and I need to wear red to counter this. Apparently red socks and red underwear are specifically recommended but I can’t buy them for myself or they won’t be lucky. My husband is on the job so I CANNOT WAIT to see what he comes up with… -shudder-

  47. THANK YOU!!!! Year of the Rabbit is me and #BookDevouringHoard is RIGHT. I *TORE through the latest Innkeeper and pre-ordered KD. AWESOME way to start of 2023. THANK YOU Author Overlords.

    AHHHH the anxiety! Is everyone safe in the Inn again? #TheAgony. Thank you so much again!!!

  49. Very Happy New Year – a freight forwarding company usage later in order to reach Australia and I have my House Andrew Merch……now which of my four awesome new mugs shall I drink tea from first while using my new mouse pad….Totally worth it.

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