Ahhhh...

first day of winter break included so many good, simple blessings:

• time for hot coffee and brownies and cookies for breakfast
• time to knit on Andy's hat and Katie's scarf
• quiet time to discuss possible summer vacation destinations with Jose (New Mexico comes to mind so far)
• time to reorganize my yarn stash as I frantically searched for size 8 dpns (nowhere to be found! argh!)
• time to watch The Shawshank Redemption on DVD with Joe
• time to read The Lace Reader for a bit
• time to make my master baking list and grocery shopping list
• Joe making hash browns and fried eggs for his brothers and himself for breakfast
• time to get all the old acrylic yarn out of my stash and get ready to donate it to Goodwill (thanks, Trish, for turning me into a yarn snob!)
• time to relax, relax, relax
• time to just enjoy being in the house amidst all the Christmas decorations
• thankful my son, Michael, decided against going to a holiday party in Los Angeles this afternoon and allow me to skip "taxi" duty