I’ve been to four local art & craft fairs in the past few weeks, and I’ve been shopping and making and wrapping, and I have a pile of Christmas cards sitting here that I’ll get around to any minute now . . . I think I feel a little frisson of extra holiday something this year because I will be hosting Christmas morning/day at my apartment, for the first time ever—my sister’s work schedule is such that she didn’t think she’d be able to take time off to travel, and my SIL is training to become a midwife and is on call for BABIES (who, she assures me, prefer to arrive during storms and/or holidays), so they and their dog and my parents are all (babies allowing) coming here, where we will enact our family traditions of Christmas bread for breakfast, and stockings and presents and hanging out being cozy and eating cookies. I dumped every holiday- and winter-themed song I could find on my computer into one playlist, which is about five and a half hours long, so I think we should be good.














And in other news, sign-ups for the next round of picfor1000 are open!