Christmas Morning

Christmas 2011!

Christmas 2011 was:

snuggling with Grandmim every single morning...

St. Nicholas stuffing a pomegranate at the bottoms of our stockings...

two new dolls with Christmas dresses and outstretched arms! A stone sled ride, a nighttime visit to all the animals and doling out treats in honor of the first Christmas...carols and candles and Papa reading the Christmas story in the horse shed in front of the life-size manger scene...

A tree a glow on Christmas Eve, an Angel of Peace and renewed vows, Lasagna and Christmas in Connecticut...cheesecake with raspberry sauce...

The Annual Christmas Puppet show performance of Cinderella to a house bursting at the seams! Chicken and Lamb soup...Christmas cookies. More Christmas Cookies.

Dancing the Nutcracker on Christmas Eve in the kitchen and living room...

HAPPINESS.

Winter

Magical.

St. Nicholas Day

Shoes filled with mittens and lollipops.

Fuzzy Snowflakes falling in the sunshine.

GrandMary's Gingerbread House.

Making cookies with friends.

2 BIG ponies.

Happiness.

Spinning and Carding

Our dear friend Karen came over yesterday to teach us how to spin and use the drum carder. I was entranced by how delighted the girls were over such a practical task. They bring such wonder and contentment to the ordinary things of the day...or of "yesterday's past".