Days 7 and 8

Day 7: Comfort Yourself

Day 8: Up On The Rooftops

It snowed and rained (freezing) today and more to come tonight.

Day 6: Every Little Thing

Rodney My Dashing Reindeer

Day 5: The View From Here

Day 4: Wish Upon a Star

Day 3: Picture the Holidays

Grounded: My husband

My husband's foot with mine, because he keeps me grounded.

Picture the Holidays

December 1st - Leaves The Colonel playing outside in the leaves. Raked leaves today and watched It's a Wonderful Life with the Girls. Miss Peach bailed early. Miss Peach worked on her Dumbledore figures

December 2nd - Reframing the Season

Miss Cocopugs got her braces this morning.

02: How They Look

01: What They Do

Dinner Last Night: Lamb Hand Pies - everyone loved them. I could count on one hand the number of times that has happened!

A little behind!

My photos for weeks 3 and 4. My abstract self-portrait didn't go so well...

Snow Tonight....

Snow tonight! Took this photo about an hour ago. We're not supposed to get much.

Mr. Fortuna signed Miss. Peach up for ice skating lessons today.

Dinner: leftover beef stew. Yum!

Project 52, Week 2

The theme this week is Cold. We leave a bowl of water outside for our cats. At night the water freezes and this is what I found this morning. I'm guessing it freezes from the outside in, and the water pushes up as it freezes. Oh, and our cats are indoor kitties, but they like to have water when they go outside (during the day.)

Dinner: Paninis

My New Glasses

Got my new glasses. I almost had heart palpitations when they brought them out in their case: a Tiffany case. Is there any better gift than something in a blue Tiffany box? It never even dawned on me when I picked them out that the case would be a Tiffany case.

Dinner tonight: Jool's Favorite Beef Stew from Jamie's Dinners. It was amazing! Very good, very easy, would make again.

Project 52, Week 1

I tried a project 365 last year and made it to April. This year I'm lowering my ambitions and going for a Project 52. Here's week 1 -- I snapped this while I was cleaning up the New Year's decorations. I like the colors.

Food and Photos

As part of Journal Your Christmas, we were supposed to take a photo of baked goods yesterday. As you can see mine didn't go so well! I think if the food had more color it would have improved the photo. I used what we had and it sort of fell flat. I then tried to improve with doing some fun editing, but that didn't go so well either!

Last night we made garlands with the Girls. They enjoyed and I forgot to take a photo! Oops.

It is important to be flexible

It is important to be flexible during Christmas. We were supposed to go to see Santa yesterday, but it was cold and very windy and we decided to switche days. We played a game and enjoyed a fire last night. Thursday night we will go see Santa, and Miss Cocopugs is hoping for Rudolph.

Marshmallows and Snowflakes

I learned how to use layers in PSE. Not hard, but boy is it hard finding how to do this! A photo of Miss Peach altered with some snowflake bokeh. A little bit of fun. This is from the parade in Middleburg this past Saturday.

December Weather and Day Two

Today I'm contemplating December weather and light. The two seem to go hand-in-hand for me. It is cold and chilly, but the light seems weak and the sun is merely a token of its normal self. I suspect the sun goes on vacation in December and hires a weak substitute.

Our Advent Action Cards

We started our Advent Action cards yesterday. Our first activity was to hang our wreath. The girls are enjoying the cards.

My Christmas Manifesto

To slow down and enjoy each day of December.

To savor and relish this time with my family and friends. It might not be perfect, but it will be special for us.

To take time to photograph and journal the daily events so we can look back and remember.

Cocoa and Marshmallows

Miss Peach enjoying hot cocoa and some really yummy marshmallows in Middleburg, Virginia.