Small Joys

• First sleepy glance out the rain-spattered window: a many-layered cloudy landscape of sky with a tiny bit of sunshine peeking through.
• Adding milk froth to my usual black coffee.
• Watching my kids dance around the kitchen to Bruce Springsteen singing "O Mary Don't You Weep".  They were using carrots and leeks for guitars and fiddles!
• Helping the three boys wisely spend their Christmas money on Amazon.  I think I always knew we were going to end up with three sets of miniature Tintin figures!
• Enjoying our California girl's last post, about her New Year's resolutions.
• Planning two new recipe posts: gingerbread cake, and haricot bean soup. Watch this space.
• Thinking about how nice it was to see our friends yesterday. Ruth and her family stopped by for a few hours, which flew past too quickly!
• Feeling thankful, once again, that we're not ill during these holidays, unlike last year  and the year before!
• Still wearing my pajamas at eleven in the morning.
• The invention of italics...