Merry

This year Emmett is finally old enough to get into some of the rituals of Christmas, which is really fun.  And we are in the middle of perpetrating the Santa Claus story on him too, which is really odd and hilarious.  "Well, you see, there's this guy, with a red suit, some flying reindeer, and a sleigh. . . "  Poor kid looks pretty confused (rightly so) about the whole Santa scenario.  

But mythical stories aside, we went out and chopped down an actual tree (by "we" read "TH" when it came to the chopping down part) this weekend, wrestled with getting the lights to work, and managed to trim the tree as a family.  Emmett LOVED it.  He kept saying: "we're decorating the tree!!" and racing back to the ornament box to hang yet another ornament on the same heavily drooping branch.

It was pretty darn cute.  And it made me feel so happy to hang so many homemade ornaments or ornaments made by friends, folks like Jeni from Odette NY, Nick from Tsuga Studios, and Sasha from What, No Mints? And we still use the little origami paper light covers that my friend Mohammed taught us all how to make at a tree trimming party in our old Brooklyn apartment.  It's so special to hang all of our ornaments with a personal story, and now we even have a few beauties made by Emmett, and I'm sure there will be many more to come!

So we are enjoying the holidays so far, in our quiet way.  I'm still working like a dog (don't know why people say that, since our dog does is not exactly the picture of industry) but am beginning to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  And luckily I enjoy my work (perhaps preferred with a little more moderation) and feel very happy with the idea that so many people out there will be exchanging one of my pieces with a loved one this holiday season.  That is pretty amazing.

 I hope you all can steal a moment or two every day to stare at your tree, preferably with a glass of something bubbly in hand.  Tis the season!