A Week in Pictures

 Sweet baby feet.

A Cozy Fire.

Jack and our Snowman Soup

Coffee on the Patio.

It Snowed!

Typical :)



December

December is my absolute favorite month of the year. It makes me feel giddy and happy in a way that no other month can compare. Last December though, was a little rough. Oh, sure, Noah and I took a week-long trip to Italy and had the best time walking the streets of Rome, Florence, Pisa, and Venice. But, we had also lost our sweet baby a few months earlier and my heart was still heavy.

We found out three days before Christmas last year that we were expecting again. I was filled with sheer joy and terror all at the same time. What if we lost this baby too? I remember hearing the words from one of my all-time favorite Christmas songs “…next year our troubles will be out of sight…” and I thought, yes! Next year! Next year we will hopefully have a brand new baby and the troubles of the last year will be out of sight. And thankfully, they are.

We have been enjoying doing special things with Elle each day of December. Our Elf on the Shelf, Jack, has a note for Elle each morning with what that day will entail and he is always hiding around the house in silly places. He gets into quite a lot of mischief! This morning we found him up in the cabinet covered in Dora band-aids :)

We are currently enjoying our Sinatra Christmas records, coffee and apple cider, and a cozy fire. It really isn’t all that cold this morning, but the smell of the holidays in the house requires a blazing fire to go along with it. Noah’s annual puzzle is in full swing and he can be found most nights hunched over the dining room table looking for just the right piece. Thankfully, Hadleigh has been going to bed a lot earlier, usually around 7:30 PM, so I have been able to have some down time too, to relax and read.

 We hope you received our Christmas card. We had a fun time taking pictures at the Minneola cottage a few weeks ago.