There on this nigjht, pieces of light...

The years pass so quickly. It seesms like only yesterday that I was posting my Yuletime thoughts about peace, salvation, and the Winter-Born King.

Another tree is up in my living room. Six years ago, I would thought of "a tree in my living room" as an event occasioning a call to the insurance company. Another beautiful pile of gifts is below it, keeping the floor from looking too plain next to the decorations that hang in the branches.

A random mix of Trans Siberian Orchestra and The Waitresses plays, another goose roasts slowly in my oven, and another Christmas Eve moves slowly and pleasantly on to Christmas Day. jadegirl reads Tasha Tudor's Take Joy! and sips tea. The cats have "Lamb and gravy" baby food next to their bowls.

It seems this little family of ours has established a tradition. I'm liking it more every year.

The weather remains crazy. Two years ago, we were snowed in on Christmas Day, spending having been kept from flying out from Dayton by a blizzard that dropped 4 inches of snow from Philly to Boston in 2 hours. (Christmas dinner had been chinese take-out.) Yesterday, it was raining so hard that it looked like curtains of water moving sideways.

The weather outside is dribbling
On sausage rolls I am nibbling...

Happy holidays, all.