Thursday, December 31, 2015

goodbye 2015

I watched the sun rise this morning from my favorite spot in the house. We live on the  corner of the street and it's something of a fishbowl effect in our front room. But if you sink into the big comfy chair, the street disappears and you look out on trees and a climbing rose draped across the window.


My Christmas village is set up right by that window - and the sun rise over this little forested kingdom was beautiful this morning.


I'll be packing up all of the Christmas things today. Putting away Christmas feels like a first brave step into the unknown of a New Year. I trot out the familiar, the comfortable, the memorable things each Christmas. They serve as a comfort to assuage the grief, the shocks, the unforeseen events that hit me over the past 11 months. Then I put away those things and face whatever may come in the next 11 with a somewhat soothed sense of "the more things change, the more they stay the same."


I wish for you, a fresh hope in this New Year.

Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Thursday, December 17, 2015

see

I was there to see
my senior daughter playing flute in her last Christmas concert 

 I just let the music wash over me

Tuesday, December 15, 2015

red cup

birthday breakfast with my sweet sixteener


I recited my "the day you were born" story which included a 3 hour easy labor; our 1st night home in a flu infected household; us two spending the night on the couch. My spiel ended with "let's do this every year" and "why aren't you a squeakier wheel?" Every family has one. The quiet wheel.

Monday, December 14, 2015

Saturday, December 12, 2015