Have a Very Leisurely Holiday

Here is what I have been doing to prepare for the upcoming holiday! Our Christmas tree is only 3 feet tall but I love it just the same. I made amazing peanut butter chocolate cookies and sugar cookies with neon icing. I made some really cute holiday cards for our loved ones. I decorated our wreath with some silver ornaments to spruce up our stairwell. I sure enjoyed that winter snowstorm, and didn't even need to leave the house all day! Phew! I think I am ready. Now I want to be relaxing by a fire with a good book and a cup of hot cocoa. I think you should do that now too. Happy New Year!

I Notice Things Now

I was walking in my favorite neighborhood, Chelsea, the other day and I noticed all these cool things I had just been skipping over before. I used to be in a mad rush all the time, on the verge of tears because I was always late, just stewing in my yucky thoughts. I feel like I just woke up again. I used to live in Chelsea for many years, and it has always been an area that is so beautiful to me (even before all the galleries took over). The quality of sunlight on 23rd Street between 8th and 9th Avenues is so clear and fresh and cheerful in the morning. So I decided to snap some photos of things I noticed, some for the first time. It's so nice to be out in the city during the day, and not chained to a desk or in a meeting.

Giving Thanks

It's that time of year again, and I have lots of families to see up over the holidays. We spent this Thanksgiving with my Dad and Stepmom up in the northwest corner of CT. The rest of my family spent the day together in another part of Connecticut. Since I knew we wouldn't be there, I sent my Mom two of those paper fold-out turkeys and wrote "Matt" on one and "Christina" on the other. I asked that the family put them at our places, take pictures with them, and send us the photos. I think I started a new tradition. My zany family went one better and here is one of the photos I got: