Mockingbird Hill Cottage

I’m cheating – I took this photo last year. But it’s so beautiful, isn’t it?

This will be short and sweet. We had a lovely and quiet day yesterday. No gifts, but lots of music, a great dinner, and Stranger Things on Netflix.

Today, on the other hand? After most of the snow melting the other day, we are being treated to 10 inches of snow tonight and tomorrow. The storm will start in the afternoon, and will go on through the night and into the morning hours on Saturday. Yikes. As you can imagine, we have to run to the grocery store this morning as well as buy some more salt for the driveway. It looks like most of the snow will fall after dark.

Not looking forward to this. It will be a snow blower event, for sure.

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and are relaxing and eating leftovers today.

Stay safe.

Happy Friday.

It’s not quite this deep but we did get about 2 inches of snow yesterday. I’m not sure how much will be on the ground on Christmas Day. We’ll see.

I want to thank you for your support and your wonderful, thought-provoking comments. Thank you for taking the time to let me know you’re out there. All of you mean so much to me.

Don and I wish you a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Solstice, Kwanzaa – whatever you celebrate. Let this be a time of respite from all of the news. It’s horrific, and we all need a break. Celebrate the season and each other.

That’s what we plan to do.

Happiest of Holidays to you and yours.

Stay safe.

We’re preparing for some snow tomorrow (also on the day after Christmas.)  It will be only 1- 3 inches, but it might impact doing last minute grocery shopping. I really don’t want to do any shopping on Christmas Eve. Last year, there were no empty parking spaces so people were parking on the grass, on the side of the road, in all sorts of illegal spaces. Not for me! Don will probably take a quick run to the store later this morning.

We really don’t exchange gifts anymore, though we did consider it this year. We always say that the tree is our gift to each other, and that’s true. We really don’t need anything and by this point, it’s too late to buy presents anyway. We’ll have a lovely and quiet day, topping it off with Christmas dinner.

We’ve also been watching Christmas movies, although with some variations this year. A couple of them are what we call “Christmas-adjacent;” Die Hard, which we watched the other night, and The Holdovers, which we’ll watch the day after Christmas. So far: A Christmas Story, and White Christmas. We watched Meet Me in St. Louis  a week or so ago. Tonight will be The Shop Around the Corner, tomorrow, A Christmas Carol (the Alastair Sim version,) and on Christmas Eve, It’s a Wonderful Life. We were going to watch Miracle on 34th Street  last night, but we got waylaid by Gold Diggers of 1933  on TCM. We realized we’d never seen it before and we were quickly hooked. We’re taking a year off from The Bishop’s Wife, per Don’s request. That’s fine with me because I often fall asleep during that movie – maybe it’s Loretta Young’s very quiet voice.

I’ve started reading A Gentleman in Moscow  again. This is my fourth reading of one of my all-time favorite novels. At this point, it’s classified as comfort reading. I need that.

If you want to see a little Christmas video of the girls, visit my IG Channel, Sophieandherpals.

I hope you’re all doing well in these days leading up to Christmas. Hang in there!

Stay safe.

Happy Monday.