I haven't posted anything until recently about our actual Christmas
celebration, because I've been on vacation. One would think, given our
convenient geographic location, that John and I would've bustled the
girls around to any one of a hundred fabulous destinations within Europe
during our Christmas vacation...nope.
Dude. We live in Vienna. We spent Christmas in Vienna and we spent the rest of our vacation here too.
Not that we were out sightseeing.
No,
the days following Christmas were spent in glorious lazy succession.
Big breakfasts that take up half the morning, followed by lots of lazing
around the house, attending tea parties and grand balls held in the
girls' bedroom. Eventually each day we'd realize we should probably
unlock the front door and venture out into the fresh air...so we'd ask
the girls what they wanted to do. This usually landed us in a big park
or walking around downtown to find horses. We'd stay out until the
girls started to get tired and then bring them home, where every toy was
suddenly new all over again.wash. rinse. repeat.
It has been one of the better vacations we've ever taken.
Meanwhile, I've been putting together a new blog that you are all welcome to follow. I won't be promoting it or posting updates on Facebook, but I will hopefully be writing regularly. In lieu of New Years resolutions (which I never make anyway), I'm starting a bit of an adventure that steers out of the realm of the narrative family focus I try (and often fail) to maintain here. (The link for this new blog is: 12monthsofchrist.blogspot.com.) The reason for the separate space and the furtive attitude is that I am uncomfortable drawing attention to the ways I'm trying to better myself. Luckily, I can give most of the credit for anything good happening in my life to the Big Guy Upstairs, hence the birth of this new space.
Now, I plan to go back to stealing as many glorious lazy family vacation moments I can. "Blessed" does not even begin to describe it.
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