Getting our game faces on

The holidays are taking on a new significance this year, now that Mia is old enough to 'get it'. Thinking back, it always seemed that these things just happened, you wake up one morning and there's a halloween parade outside your front door. Come home one day and the hallway smells of spruce and your roommate has heated up some apple cider. I'm getting this overpowering sense though that it's our responsibility to make these things happen, and not let local furniture commercials introduce her to what Christmas music is supposed to be about.




So we put the tree up early, had friends over for making Christmas cookies, and am trying to get creative with all these boxes that have been coming in the mail and empty cardboard tubes from the wrapping paper.