We lit our first fire in the fireplace today. It took a while to really get going but was burning quite merrily until dinnertime.

We also pulled out many of the holiday CDs to play them when we were out, today, driving around the very snowy, very chilly countryside.

In the spirit of the season, eight random holiday icons (images from Stock.xchng) ( Read more... )

elspethsheir is hosting her holiday tea party and, in honour of this event, I'm sharing ( Six tea icons )

angua9 has posted a spirited defense of romance novels. Shippers of any fandom -- come see ( Read more... )

We just got back from dropping Mike off at work. No way was he walking when it is -32 out (not counting windchill). The only problem was that the minivan doors had frozen a bit so the girls' doors didn't open but ended up slightly (ever so slightly) ajar (enough to set off the little "door ajar" light and ringer every time we started up again and ( Read more... )