Christmas

For Christmas, we stayed home. It's been a cold, rainy day, so we pretty much spent our day in the living room with a fire. We opened our gifts, and talked about going for a walk. His favorite gift was a book I found in one of the free Little Libraries in the neighborhood: a biography of Millard Fillmore. Mine was two new brushes and pads of Arches watercolor paper. He settled in and started reading his book while I started a gauge swatch for a sweater I'm going to knit. The day was interspersed with lots of texts and emails from family and friends. I put a Moroccan lamb stew on the stove before we went across the street to the neighbor's back yard for a mug of eggnog with them. It stopped raining just in time. A nice, laid back day, if a bit lonely.