We have been taking a few quiet days here to enjoy calm after the past busy weeks. (Well, mostly calm until the tragedy of spilled Sea Monkey water at lunch today). I hope you are all enjoying your holidays so far. Josie is so happy to have her big sister home for the week and new toys and art projects are keeping them busy. I always feel a little sad after the frenzy of making and wrapping and cooking for Christmas is over. But thinking about the excitement of the year to come and planning new projects always makes me feel better.

A few things from the last weeks:

*Decorated. My once vintage-only tree decorations have made way for crayon colorings and heavily decorated bottom branches.

*Cousin Hug

*Wrapped. A mix of vintage and Ikea papers and glittered tags.

*Josie, Christmas Eve Party. Methodically eating an entire piece of cake with one antenna and a grown-up fork.

*Frenzy

**Cheers to New Year’s Plans!**