Home For the Holidays

What a weird year this has been. It started out so well with new clients, great projects to work on and lots of hope.

With the arrival of COVID that changed quickly. after years of flying somewhere almost every week, I can’t tell you when the last time was that I flew.

At first it was kind of nice to have an excuse to stay home and I spent lots of time in the kitchen working on new recipes. I’m in love with the Strawberry Pop Ups that I perfected using my collection of cast iron skillets, then moved on to bread, also in my cast iron. I think at that point we all thought it would be a few weeks, but months later I’m resigned to the fact that our world has probably changed forever. I now have a serious collection of masks for every mood and every day, and my favorite appliance - my LG Styler is used daily to sanitize not only my masks but a lot of my other clothing and bedding. I don’t know what I would do without it.

It’s so hard to believe that the holidays are almost here! Usually if I get my tree up and decorated it’s the week before Christmas, but this year we have not one, but four trees up and decorated with our favorite family and vintage ornaments. There is something peaceful about having the light of the tree on every night -things almost feel normal.

Usually I go to visit my kids during the holidays or my parents, but it is looking like this year I’ll be staying home so that we can all be safe. A small sacrifice to make sure that we can all be together next year. So we are going to make the best of it and cook our favorite family recipes, and most of all, be safe. I’m already looking forward to next year!

November 15, 2020