Our New Year's gifts

(We will be in Montreal sharing out the bounty when this post pops up)



As is our tradition, we opened gifts of the immediate family - and a few extra - on New Year's Day. You have seen my lovely quilt (please come and sleep under it soon, y'all - but on 2nd thought, not all at once).

However, there were many other gems:

+ purple (and pink) and sparkle-hearted Converse (ok, they were self-bought and made my partner sigh that he never would have picked them; it's like my hair - I keep him guessing)!

+ loads of novels for the kids (including some new series, the next 2 installments of The Magic Thief, HC Anderson's Illustrated Fables, and Seb's first adapted Shakespeare)

+ lovely t-shirts from Babush in Ethiopia - and a special holiday letter which Seb read all by himself


+ funky boots for my main man

+ snow-boots for the next in line

+ bright red wool ski socks for the kids - not home knit...

+ regal purple wool scarf for me

+ tons of lovely art supplies for Sophie (plastecine, thumb print art kit)

+ several new games (one seems to be about a favourite topic: cheese)

+ a wonderful paint-your-own pottery platter that the children made their dad (CBC, Dad, Ski, Tennis painted on it)

+ a magnificent professional pottery bowl (do come and dine from it soon!)




+something that we dare not admit publicly...