remnants

- My grandma heard I've been wanting a good beanie, so she knit some cable-knit caps for me, my mom and my sister and mailed them over along with a bunch of other goodies in an endearing Christmas package. So cute.

- An olive green cardigan I found in the H&M guys' section (on sale!), that my mom hates because she says I look like I filched it off a grandpa. I don't care! I got a $1 grab bag at Revival that amongst other things had this cheesy old poinsettia badge in it and I pinned it on the cardigan and wore it around on Christmas for extra geriatric/festive points.

- My stepdad was feeling 'extra Mondrian-y' as he put it when he was writing my name and Y's on our Christmas envelopes. I save every single one of these. A few simple marker strokes on an envelope from him mean so much to me for some reason.

I'm glad it's Wednesday!

yuletidings

I woke up to tree-shaped toasts that Y made, which were really just the cut-outs of trees in bits of toast with eggs filling the negative tree-space... so awesome! I ate two. Three Maxes in a row - Maxie regarding me with hopes of a lovely Christmas morning walk (which did happen), a wild thing Max on our tree, and Maxie staring at Christmas presents he has no chance of getting to, with BB watchfully posing in the background. Some patches I managed to scrounge up for Y, and a surly black cat that reminded me of her too. Christmas was really subdued but I liked it. I spent the whole day cooking with my sister, and after dinner I basically just collapsed and went to bed.

merry christmas eve

Tonight after dinner I walked my dogs to the local 'Christmas tree lane'. They were happy to go out and when my mom told them to look at the lights they really stopped to stare. Things are starting to come into focus, slowly but surely.

breakfast on x-mas

Mushroom soup from last night's dinner and a mini pumpkin pie. Holidays = good food.

merry christmas!

1. My sister holding a picture of herself as a preschooler during Christmastime.
2. BB and Max hunting for treats.
3. Presents! Wrapped and ready for delivery.
4. More pumpkin pies! delicious...
5. A painting of BB and Max I made for my stepdad, he liked it!

I hope everyone is enjoying their Christmas/winter break/holiday season! The warmth of the holiday comes about by food, friends, family and dogs!