The Holidays are finally over!
Thanksgiving seems like a lifetime ago. Since then I have baked a mountain of cookies (and consumed too many of them). I’ve e-shopped, wrapped and opened many gifts and did surprising well this year in my choices.
I’ve opened my home to family and friends and been welcomed in other homes for some Christmas cheer.
I’ve decorated my home and helped decorate the church with live greens and glittering ribbons and delighted in the warm glow of candles and my gas fire. (I love flicking that switch and having instant charm and warmth.)
I’ve written our annual Christmas letter and mailed almost a hundred cards. I have received a fewer number but have delighted in them all just the same and hope that those I haven’t heard from are all well.
I’ve been to the movies three times! This is remarkable since it’d probably been more than six months since I last went. But, in the past year we have had a new theater open in town and Dave and I have begun to make dates on Sunday afternoons of a movie and light dinner.
I’ve traveled back in time to the Eighteenth Century, spending the waning days of 2012 in Colonial Williamsburg focusing on the unfairness of the Stamp Act while avoiding the modern day discussions of the looming “fiscal cliff”.
I guess I’ve been sort of busy, too busy it seems to have kept up with my writing. But, I’m gearing up to pack up the holidays on the twelveth day of Christmas and return to ordinary time.
Until then, Happy New Year my friends! May only the best come your way in this New Year!
