Holiday Highlights 2014

Happy New Year! Hope you’ve enjoyed the holidays and that your year is off to a great start so far! I’ve been doing my best to step away from the computer a bit (though not from the camera… or Instagram), so allow me to ease back in with some photos from the break? I admit I sometimes fear these family-photo posts are too self-indulgent, but I love having them to look back on! They’re my favorite.

So, here’s what we’ve been up to since that last holiday re-cap…

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Merry Christmas!

To those of you who are celebrating Christmas today, may your holiday be merry! And good cheer to all. xo

The Shortest Day (the first of winter)

For those of us in the Northern Hemisphere, today is the shortest day—and the longest night—of the year. Winter has officially begun and every day now gets a bit lighter than the one before.

The Shortest Day 
So the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year’s sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, revelling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us — listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!

—Susan Cooper

Be cozy. Happy winter!

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