Holiday Love

The holidays for us are, like for so many people, a crazy time of family friends and food.  And this year was no different.  With our immediate family in town, Christmas day is a meticulously juggled time of family hopping. Breakfast with the inlaws, brunch with my mom, lunch with my dad, dinner with an extended variant of the inlaws, and drinks with the siblings-in-law. 

You'd think that it would end there.  That after the year end binge of cream and sugar topped baking and mountains of wrapping paper, that 24 hours of awesome would leave us a pair of giggling maniacs.  But no.  Along with a hopscotch work schedule for me, there is also my father's extended family dinner a few days ago - with special attention to my grandfather, who was considerate enough to be born at such a time to as not complicate his mother's Christmas dinner, nor interfere with the ever anticipated New Years Eve party.  And always the extended family passing through town.

Now we are coasting through the brief few days of recovery time between one set of over-indulgence, and the next. 

Tis also the season for travel, and while we have remained (mostly) rooted at home, the last 36 hours have been a blessing for spending time with out-of-town friends.  My dearest grade school companion in crime Jenny and her husband David, up visiting their parents from the far off land of Toronto.  And beautiful amazing Melody, a friend from grad school now in Calgary, in to spend the holidays with her mom.  And crazy Kyle from Owen Sound who taught us to curl - traveling up to discover that he is to be a best man for a friends wedding this summer.  We talked, we caught up, we laughed.  We promised that this year we'd find the time and wherewithal to get out to their neck of the woods. 

And I had to resist the urge this morning to go tearing through the stash to show my love in wooliness.  Even miles apart, there is something nice about being hugged at a distance through knit love.  Although... there is some suspiciously John Deere green sock yarn that arrived in the mail a few days ago.  And a curling bonspeil in March...

Hugs and holiday love to all!  I'm going to go and work off this food baby I've been carrying around for a few days.  And find some double points.