Pa will try again to attend his first NFL football game in 2012.
Ma will buy (or preferably win) a new house that contains her dream kitchen (with a stove that works), a newly shingled roof, freshly paved driveway, new windows and siding, and so on…
Thing 1 will work a little harder at looking after himself.
Thing 2 will work on his taste in music (if not his many eating disorders).