I’ve decided this post should have the sunny picture with the blue skies. The other was snow with dawn just coming out of the gloom. Sunny blue skies seemed like the best choice to focus on though.
There are 3 weeks between now and the holiday break. The holiday break is 2 weeks off this year, yay!, but there’s a lot of ‘looming concerns’ in the wider world. So….yeah.
But home is nice. Home has cats cuddling in sunbeams (sudden, actual cold weather will do that!) and tiny children with cozy wool blankets and piles of books. And there are gardens to plan (really, actually for real this time!!!) and small projects to do and it is fine here.
I think that’s the most important thing to focus on and make true. It doesn’t have to be perfect or flashy or anything, it just needs to be fine and content and happy. Those are what I want to work on.
Small children mean big projects and ideas are not super feasible (except canning 200+ lb of tomatoes, or replacing the floor or other things that were huge to do and then disappear in to a new, but better!, status quo). But small and medium projects can happen a bit at a time and those are good.
Maybe we can replace some remaining bits of floor, build bookshelves and canning jar shelves and I can recover another two sofa cushions.
And there can be fun kids things, get a tree from the tree farm, decorate cookies, drive down and see the lights downtown at night make gingerbread houses out of graham crackers, watch the nutcracker and other good things.
And for all of us, read lots of books, make tasty things, make small projects, pet cats.
There, those are good holiday goals. 🙂
Oh, and all the holiday gift making is done and it’s only December 1. I win this year.
