Christmas & Wigilia!

Merry Christmas!

I had a wonderful whirlwind of a Christmas - spending it between NY and MA with my family and Mike's. We drove up to Cairo NY on Friday after I got out of school. Friday night we went to Joe's brothers house for a get together. It was a lot of fun and a lot of sangria and buffalo chicken dip. Saturday I got to celebrate Wigilia with Mike's family. This is their Christmas Even celebration - the Polish version of Christmas Eve. We had a delicious fish dinner (everything Mike's mom cooks is delish), wine and presents. Sunday morning we woke up early to drive back to my parents for presents & breakfast with my family. After hours of gift opening (we open one at a time) we got ready and headed to my aunts. Things always get silly and wild after a few hours when we're all together. We played would you rather, and somehow, not unlike Thanksgiving, wound up wearing fake mustaches again. I took only a few pictures all day, as I was trying to soak in the moments. Therefore, I only have a few moments to share with you....

 Christmas nails.

 Gingerbread lattes.

Beautiful tree.

 Christmas in the mountains.

 Christmas peach.

 Great new tunes.


New nametag for my desk at school. Love.

Uncle Mike & McKenna & her new purple hippo!

 New rocking giraffe.

 Moment captured.

Auntie Meg and Peaches. :)

Putting ornaments on the tree.

My beautiful sissies.

Opening presents with the princess.

My favorite present, everyday.

How was your Christmas? Hopefully filled with love and family <3

I hope you listen & love this as much as I do.

LP - Into the Wild

McKenna's Christmas Photoshoot

I did a photoshoot for McKenna's Christmas card picture over the weekend.

Do I really need any words?

Precious lil babe.

Holiday fun

Yesterday we spent the day in Boston at one of our favorite markets: SOWA holiday market. SOWA has open markets every Sunday from April to the end of October outdoors in the South End of Boston. Around the holidays they hold an indoor market, with a ton of vendors, christmas music, and treats. It really got me in the Christmas spirit yesterday walking around the cobblestone streets of the South End, hearing Christmas music, seeing all the Christmas lights once the sun went down, sipping on flavored lattes, holding hands.... just taking it all in. I feel an immense amount of love for New England around the holidays. Although I often dream of living on the West Coast or in the south where it is warm -- I cannot imagine wintertime not being in Boston. I love all of the lights, bundling up, seeing my breath outside. Of course it can get painfully cold, but there is nothing better than cuddling up inside in front of a fire and watching the snow fall.... 

What do you like about winter where you live?

XO

lately.

 latest obsession: peppermint icecream - good for the soul, bad for the thighs.

 dark hair

 these snug bugs

 date night

 getting dessert

 twinkly lights

 cupcakes!

 as much as i complain about my early mornings, the sunrises i see sure are beautiful

new plum candle

peach and the fishies

what's made you smile lately?

xo

i carry your heart

i carry your heart with me [i carry it in
my heart] i am never without it
anywhere i go you go, my dear;
and whatever is done by only me
 is your doing, my darling
i fear no fate [for you are my fate, my sweet]
i want no world [for beautiful you are my world, my true]
and it’s you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you


here is the deepest secret nobody knows
[here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than soul can hope or mind can hide]
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart


i carry your heart [i carry it in my heart]

e.e.cummings