December seems so long ago, and really it was, and the promise of Spring is so close. Holiday Season starts for our family quite early and spreads all the way into the new year and I think that might be part of the reason that I let most of the Christmas pictures sit for such a long tine. I really haven’t made much of an effort to go through them. With that said, I pulled a few of my favorite pictures from some of the events that we either hosted or attended. Gingerbread house decorating, Nutcracker Ballet, Bell Gath, Aunties and Uncles visiting….our early December was busy. Tomorrow I’ve got Christmas Eve pictures coming with the eventual plan to bring everything back to reality around here. 
Winter: Day Two of Two
We’d been on a bit of a getaway for my birthday to Bainbridge Island and decided to take a roundabout way home in order to visit my parents and Barry’s as well. We’d been really lucky with the weather on Bainbridge and were surprised to wake up to a bit of snow when visiting my mom and dad. It was exactly the right amount of snow for us to still get where we needed to go (home!!) and for the girls to feel like it was exciting. Truthfully, if our Winter Wonderland were only two days a year, I’d probably be okay. Maybe I just feel that way after stuffing everyone, myself included, into gear to get outside….bathing suits, water and warmth sound appealing. If I were ever to really get snowed in somewhere, I’d want to be at my childhood home. The best sledding is in walking distance and hot chocolate always tastes better next to the big fire.
I’m Here.
Four days ago I started this post and it was going to be a post about taking care of myself and so I can better take care of those around me, but now all that thinking, four whole days ago, seems like a distant thought. My friend over at Clove’s Corner wrote a great little essay about the exact things that I’ve been thinking about. Check it out here. She often takes the words out of my mouth, and I think that after I read her writing, I feel like I’ve purged a post of my own. I suppose it’s just nice to have a ‘friend’ that feels the same way I do. (Friend in quotes because we’ve never actually met….).
Some really great things have happened lately: we went to Harrison Hot Springs to celebrate Audrey’s birthday, we had a birthday/playdate celebration with the A-Town posse, Barry’s parents came for a great visit, and Brian and Darcy got engaged. Life is full to the brim these days, and by the end of the day, when I have a moment to write about it, I hardly have enough energy to sit down and tap a few words out. So, I chicken-scratch these posts together in hopes that the images and a few words will be enough to remember all the joy and love we feel. Hopefully I can remember between the lines.
Maybe it’s the two cups of coffee I had this morning, or the fact that the house is quiet, but my brain can’t quite settle itself into any sense of a pattern to write. So I won’t. Until next time.
