New Year

What a great week we've had, just settling back in at home. I haven't gone through my Christmas pictures yet but this is what we've been doing yesterday and today. Playing in the snow!!!

 It's been about 50 degrees, but the snow is still deep in a lot of places from all the drifts from the storm last weekend. It's great packing snow, too. Molly and Teddy have been making snow balls, snow angels and snow men every chance they get. They haven't had a single argument, they've been so busy playing in it.

Now that the holidays are over I've jumped in to serious nesting mode. So far that has mostly meant cleaning with gusto. We took down our Christmas tree the morning we got home and all week Molly has been very patiently playing with her new toys while I scrub out the inside of the refrigerator, rearrange closets and generally go nuts on the house. We've had no activities and I've had a cold, so we hardly left the house all week. It feels so nice to just be home cooking and cleaning and napping and regrouping. Ahhhhh.

We're baking a lot of bread this weekend, even more than usual. I think everybody has made a loaf already and there's more dough rising. Here's Molly working hers last night (in her ADORABLE new apron from Auntie Grace).

Jim put it in the oven for her after bed time last night and this morning she woke up to have her own little boule for breakfast.

It's good to be home.