Quiet Wintry Afternoons
Hope you’re all enjoying a blessed and beautiful Christmas season! Most of our snow has melted and gone, but I can’t help enjoying the sights of the past few days again!Â
Today was a clean-up day – putting away, vacuuming a few corners, a fun rearranging of a child’s room upstairs. This afternoon has been delightfully quiet – Rob and the two older children went to the farm to do some barn work while the little two slept, the puppies slept, and I….well…I curled up in front of a cozy fire with a cup of cafe’ au lait in hand – so warming – staring at a pile of utterly inviting and delicious books and delights I received for Christmas! My biggest dilemma? Which to immerse myself in first?
Decision:Â The Resilient Gardener
Followed by indecision:Â Management in the Home
Such happy dilemmas! Hope you’re all enjoying a little of the same! Warm fires…family time…and the delights and joys of this holy season!
Oh Jen it's great to see your pictures, how beautiful! I'm going to be looking up those titles at the library, great!
Thanks for the glimpse of the snow! The puppy is so cute!
Laughing at our weather contrasts. My children are out in the wading pool, under the tree for shade.
That is SO FUNNY, Erin!!! It probably IS crazy to you! As we're snowed in…you're looking for the fan and grabbing the ice cream! Oh well! Here's hoping there are cool breezes for you in your neck of the woods!
Merry Christmas!!
Beautiful phots, enjoyed seeing the snow. We don't get that down here. 🙂
We are still enjoying all of our decor, we don't put everything away until The Baptism of the Lord. Our family tradition. We don't decorate with our Christmas decor until Christmas Eve and we still light the white center candle in our Advent wreath until the Baptism.The St. Nicholas decor comes out for his Feast Day of course, but other than that we wait in anticipation to break out everything else. I love how it builds up the excitement in the little ones. I just love seeing and reading about each families different traditions that they pass on to their children. The domestic church is such a beautiful thing isn't it??!!
Peace & Health,
Elizabeth
Jen, we have enjoyed the snow here is Georgia too although it wasn't as much and melter quicker. A cup of java, a new book and peace and quiet? A little bit of heaven….. Happy New Year.
Loved all the beautiful photos of your family, Jennifer! It looks as if you all had a great Christmas!
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Your pictures are lovely. We've had a little snow here today too. It was beautiful to wake up to a carpet of white for New Year's Day! Those books both look fascinating. I'm going to have to see if I can get ahold of them!