And immediate aftermath. At 3:34 p.m. Christmas Day, it was 53° and raining. Christmas Eve day it was just as warm and less wet and I ran into a neighbor who called it “lovely, but so wrong”. A perfect way to describe the weather. I wish I had thought of the phrase 10 years ago … [Read more…]
Tuesday began the transition from cookie season to holiday season. It was the first day in weeks when I didn’t eat a single cookie … well, except for 2 pieces of the layered white chocolate peppermint bark. But that can almost be considered a refresher rather than a cookie. Instead I ate too much of … [Read more…]
I mean, cookie season’s not quite over; there’re still quite a few cookies in the house, buckets with kinds we like for us to eat, clamshells that people will be picking up for the leftover cookie grab, and I think the cookie fairy will go her rounds Tuesday. But still, it’s time to reflect on … [Read more…]
So the cookie boxes have been dropped off at the post office and I should feel a great weight lifted, but I’m still stressing about will the contents be intact when they reach their destinations. Rach is getting an extra box with some nice boots she was keeping here when she used to come once … [Read more…]
I was still positive on the Thursday after Thanksgiving, albeit with a really faint line. Which could mean nothing, but both Megan and Pia had the really faint line on the last test before their negative test that marked the end of quarantine. So, Mark went to Chicago for the day Friday without me, and … [Read more…]