I have a tiny human sleeping in a sling on my chest. She’s all curled up right now, not stretchted out to her 2 feet of length, which she often likes to do these days. She’s a snuggly little cuddle-worm; yes, I’m now blogging in babytalk. Can’t help myself.
So if you’re going to be snowed in, do it with a newborn! They keep you busy, require work, and provide many many rewards. If you don’t own one, rent one (i.e. babysit!). The many noises and facial expressions each one comes with will make you forget the sound of your smartphone, pager, crackberry, and/or inner voices.
Christmas was spent with our new little family, and yes, this was taken with a self-timer and a tripod (and required several takes - and we're still missing half of Mike's face!). We awoke to few snow flurries, and I made breakfast: mimosas, povatetsa (amazing Polish pastry bread sent from Mike’s parents every year), and my specialty, candied bacon. We opened presents and Skyped with both families. Mike chipped in for lunch, initiating his new tradition of making something new every year, which in this case was roasted tomato goat cheese open-faced sandwiches. We took a relaxing walk round the frozen pond, and then topped the evening off with some honey-baked ham, roasted tomato soup, arugala salad, and fresh-baked chocolate chip roasted walnut cookies, first playing Heavy Rain (Mike’s xbox 360 Christmas gift to himself), and watching Christmas vacation.
So we missed our families, but we really had the best Christmas ever! Babies make good presents....
Hope everyone had a falalalala good time this year!
sign me up for the kent family xmas next year. thats my sort of holiday-- based around food and drink! PS- the family portrait is adorable; is grace smiling???
ReplyDelete