If on a winter’s night, a traveler …
Tatjana left today for Croatia for two weeks and along with Loca being on the farm, it’s gotten pretty quiet around here. I’d like to say I will use the time she is away to rest and restore, but my dance card is swollen with events, meetings, work, full-time parenting, as well as all the rest of what goes into my life.
I have to say I loathe traveling in December, always have. There is something about the winter nights, despite the fact winter is a visiting uncle here in New Orleans, that make me want to curl up at home and put my fireplace video on the TV, and listen to Christmas music at full roar.
Tin got out his crayons, I cranked up Johnny Mathis, and while he was thinking about presents, I began thinking about latkes and menorahs and dreidels and holidays past and present.
There is no place like home for the holidays.
December 5th, 2012 at 11:04 pm
OMG… you have a fireplace DVD?!!
I bought one last year when I moved here and was without internet and tv for over a month. Living in a one-and-a-half room apartment and staring at a black flat 32-inch tv screen was depressing, so I ordered a fireplace/aquarium combo DVD. Every morning, I turn the fireplace on and meditate to the sounds of crackling fire.
I feel so much closer to you now. HA! 🙂
December 6th, 2012 at 9:47 pm
Mudd – I love that fireplace and people insist that it throws off heat when you sit next to it. I wish I would have gotten the aquarium combo though – such a deal.