Sisyphus

Spent the day trying to absorb all of Baby SevPrez's lovely gifts into our home. Making space in her drawers for stylin new threads (2T! At least in leggings) and reorganizing our back entry bookshelf to accommodate some of the little one's books and belongings. Her shoe collection has mushroomed. She favors her patent Mary Janes but tries to put her new sparkly pink shoes on over them.

She looked adorable on Christmas Eve, then I dropped my phone in the toilet and lost my photo documentation. You'll just have to take my word for it.

Merry

Taking merry to an all time high, an itemized list.

1. Listening to Christmas music in the car. And singing and gesticulating along, ostensibly for Baby Sevprez

2. Staying up til 12:45 to wrap presents.

3. Baking pumpkin pies on Christmas Eve. While wearing a pompom hat.

4. Last minute shopping for stocking stuffers and an undershirt to complete Baby SevPrez's Christmas outfit. (Usually I would let these details go.)

5. Singing "Let it Snow" and "Rudolph" instead of my usual lullabies.

6. Reading "Twas the Night Before Christmas" aloud all the way through til the end, long after my daughter has walked away bored.

7. Being the most distraught in the house to learn that the "Mickey's Christmas Carol" DVD went missing.

Merry Xmas.

The Best Lights In All The Land

Thank you, family that lives on Creamery Lane, for putting up the most stunning display of Christmas lights I have ever seen, year after year.

This picture does it no justice. It can be spotted from a quarter mile away across a nursery in Colts Neck. You have to turn your head at just the right time to catch them, but needing an extra boost of the upside of life, today I sought them out upclose. It's only fair I share it with you.

O Christmas Tree

Another Charlie Brown from the Maine woods.

The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year

After a whirlwind fall of European business trips and Hurricane Sandy/Early Snowfall, we packed up the car to the gills and took our yearly Thanksgiving roadtrip to Maine. Thanksgiving came early this year and we felt it. As much as we felt like we hadn't been home as family in our own house for more than a few days at a time, packing up the ole suitcases felt like business as usual so off we went.

And it was great.

First we had Thanksgiving.























Then my birthday!





















And now Christmas is a'coming.
(As signalled by my newly acquired vintage Christmas candles.)
Cheers to you.