is it over yet?

The best part of Christmas this year was having visitors. Ana, Elliott, Camille and Stefan decorated the tree, I had a control freak mini-attack, but they did a great job. They also made a fabulous gingerbread house that looked like it was inhabited by a family with a hoarding disorder. I made a plate of lemon bars and the kids ate them as fast as they came out of the oven, before I could snap a photo. Christmas morning I made my sister’s orange-cranberry muffins, and some maple sausage I brought from Trader Joe’s and had been hiding in the freezer in the land of no sausage. We enjoyed opening presents together–I especially love my pincushion Ana made. Here is Stefan loaded down with just some of his new swimming pool toys, then they tried them all out for the rest of the day. We keep marveling that next year, it’ll be so different.