Merry Christmas--Happy Holidays--Happy New Year! (A little late...)
I realize I haven't posted for a long time, though I have been leaving comments on my friends' feeds...
So a really quick happy post about how I spent my Christmas!
I live in Chicago. I have 3 daughters who live in Nashville, Tennessee (with 2 daughters ages 3 1/2 and 1); Heidelberg, Germany (with 1 daughter age 4 1/2); and Tacoma, Washington (no kids, but a cat) and they all have lovely husbands, as do I.
For my Christmas present to myself I flew all of us to Germany to spend Christmas with my daughter there. It was the first time all of us have been together in about 2 1/2 years.
It was so wonderful to be all together for a holiday! The little girls hit it off immediately and were insperable the whole 9 days we were there. And somehow my kids knew that I was quietly obsessing about how I was going to get a photo of all of us during the trip--who could I hand a camera to that would get all of us smiling at the same time? because the day we arrived they had hired a professional photographer to come to the house and take pictures as my Christmas present!
It was absolutely the perfect gift for me, and I thought I'd share the result, along with my other favorite 2 pictures from the trip: me with all 3 of my granddaughters, and the granddaughters wearing the flannel nightgowns that Aunt Adrienne (the one without kids) sewed for them all to wear to bed on Christmas Eve.
I hope these pictures make you smile as much as I do when I look at them :)
So a really quick happy post about how I spent my Christmas!
I live in Chicago. I have 3 daughters who live in Nashville, Tennessee (with 2 daughters ages 3 1/2 and 1); Heidelberg, Germany (with 1 daughter age 4 1/2); and Tacoma, Washington (no kids, but a cat) and they all have lovely husbands, as do I.
For my Christmas present to myself I flew all of us to Germany to spend Christmas with my daughter there. It was the first time all of us have been together in about 2 1/2 years.
It was so wonderful to be all together for a holiday! The little girls hit it off immediately and were insperable the whole 9 days we were there. And somehow my kids knew that I was quietly obsessing about how I was going to get a photo of all of us during the trip--who could I hand a camera to that would get all of us smiling at the same time? because the day we arrived they had hired a professional photographer to come to the house and take pictures as my Christmas present!
It was absolutely the perfect gift for me, and I thought I'd share the result, along with my other favorite 2 pictures from the trip: me with all 3 of my granddaughters, and the granddaughters wearing the flannel nightgowns that Aunt Adrienne (the one without kids) sewed for them all to wear to bed on Christmas Eve.
I hope these pictures make you smile as much as I do when I look at them :)