Some Christmas Snapshots.

On Christmas Day, I tried to take a photo of my sister.  I told Katie that if she made a weird face or attempted to hide behind the pillow, I'd put this photo on my blog:

I can't believe that Christmas has come and gone already.  If I had taken more than a couple of photos that day and if I were feeling more inspired right now I'd wax eloquent about what a great day it was.  But my brain is tired at the moment, so suffice it to say that Matt and I had a lovely Christmas. We spent the morning here at home with each other and Teddy and Truman.  We opened gifts, listened to Christmas music, and ate cinnamon rolls.  Speaking of Christmas music, Matt gave me Sufjan Stevens's Songs for Christmas.  It's music that I want to listen to when I'm curled up on the couch watching the snow fall outside and I'm sure I'll be playing it long after the Christmas tree is put away.  (Yes, it's still up.  It's too fresh and beautiful to take down yet.)   

Christmas afternoon was spent at my parents' home.  We opened presents, feasted together, and watched Rudloph and Red-nosed Reindeer ... just me and Matt, my parents, my sister, and my grandparents. 

 

This is a picture of two things I love: 1) My husband.  2) One of the best Christmas gifts I've ever received.  I bought this cupboard for myself at a yard sale several years ago, and it's been in my parents' storage shed ever since.  When I bought it, it was a mess--filthy, layer upon layer of peeling paint, rusted hinges.  The previous owner said that it came from a remodel of the original Park Place Hotel kitchen--if that's true, the cupboard dates back to the 1920s.  I love the Park Place so I was sold.  I couldn't take the cupboard back to Louisville on the plane so we stashed it in my parents' storage shed until we could drive it back to Louisville, but as the months went on I forgot that the cupboard even existed.  Recently my dad was cleaning, came across the cupboard, and decided to refinish it as a surprise for me.  The hours of work he put into it make it priceless.  I love it.  Sadly, we don't have a good place to hang it here in our condo, so we put it up temporarily in the garage ... that way I can at least see it and use it for storage.

I'm off to work on a little creative project that I hope to feature on here in upcoming days.  Stay tuned!