Ten Little Celebrations – December 2017
/Merry Christmas!
It’s be a month full of little celebrations too! I’ve picked 10 to highlight.
There has been luscious food all through the month. I managed to spread it out and enjoy it more:
My birthday slice of carrot cake has so much icing that I saved half of it to spread on toast for two days following my birthday!
There were a large variety of homemade cookies to enjoy at the annual Howard Count Conservancy (HCC) Natural Holiday sale. It’s wonderful to enjoy just one of my favorite kinds rather than having to bake a whole batch myself.
A few days afterward there was a surprise event for HCC volunteers…as celebration of our 2017 activities.
I did make oatmeal cranberry bars and enjoyed the cookie dough first…and then the bars (another multiple day celebration).
I celebrated a hike in the woods…seeing a lot of different kinds of shelf fungus…
And a conference about water monitoring….well worth the registration fee and time.
We had our first snow – it was easy to celebrate because it didn’t snarl traffic but stuck enough to make a surface for animal tracks.
There is something to celebrate in almost every shift I do with the Brookside model trains because there are always young children there enjoying the trains – a vicarious celebration.
I also celebrated a special engine during one of the shifts: it has smoke swirling out of its smokestack!
Finally – we’ve had such dry weather recently, I found myself celebrating a rainy day – realizing that even in winter, plants need moisture. I also celebrated that it was a day I was spending at home.
