Maybe it’s because we have a wee bit shorter tree this year, but now when I look at it I realize that it’s missing something at the top. This German handmade tree topper from Schoolhouse Electric is on my radar screen now. Maybe something like this could convince me to drop the height of the…
day four: preparation and expectant waiting
day four: some birthday presents and the beginning of the piles, all that I can show for now There is a direct connection between the season of Advent and the time that I spend each year working on my holiday cards. In the early years (this is year fourteen for me) I tried to formulate some…
day three: work before the work
It sort of feels like this year has been a lot of “work before the work”. We set a lot of goals for ourselves, but none of those were really simple to achieve. And then I tried to knock off some of the simpler steps on my own, week by week, but even those proved…