St Nick

Today is St Nicholas Day, and Saturday we had our annual St Nick party here - I have lost count but I think it may have been the 7th one? Not sure - anyway - it was so much fun, and as a bonus, my 19 year old daughter even came! She has never come to one of these, in the early days she would always arrange a sleepover at a friend's house and last year she was away at college. This year, she attend college in town. She doesn't live here, but she's pretty close by. It was fun to have her here.

I employed a new strategy, well, it's not really new...I have known about it for a long time, but finally employed it Saturday....having a glass of water between glasses of wine. Only ended up having 2 glasses of wine, which is a little below my usual for a party, and finished off with 2 cups of decaf pumpkin spice coffee with frothed cream and stevia - mmmmmmm - introduced a couple of folks to that lovely treat. Got the coffee online at Gloriajeans.com since our local market only had caffeinated pumpkin spice variety.

I just looked out my back window and was stopped by the beautiful snow globe type snow that is falling out there on top of the blanket of about 7 inches of new snow. The yard lights and plant pots (which didn't get put away before our first snow of the season) are all wearing caps of snow - it looks a little Dr Suessian out there. I love it! Winter is really beautiful! But I am glad we are going to Florida on Saturday for 8 days! Hooray!

Have a great day!