exhaling
Posted on | December 9, 2005 |
The morning light was flecked with falling snow, and few inches of powder already covered roofs and sidewalks when we woke up. I’ve been waiting for snow, and felt like I could finally exhale, my breath lingering whitely in the air. After a long week of fun-house ups and downs, things felt mostly even today.
Bean is has gone and started doing adorable things like waving, and offering me his crackers or orange slices, and my heart starts flapping about all wild and goofy when I watch him trying to stand on his own. I catch myself trying to pin point the exact moment he’s gone and gotten older, but I can’t quite. It’s just a blur of almost toothy grins, as he boogies to the music or chases the cats around.
Finally DH and I had a few moments together too, that didn’t involve discussing future house projects, our finances, or our son. We sat around covered in icing and listening to Sinatra’s Christmas classics, decorating gingerbread cookies for the people in our lives with kids in theirs, for the better part of yesterday evening.
Today we bought garlands of balsam and spruce to string up around the apartment, and a wreath for the door, and spontaneously, on our way to pick up the greenery, drove out to the house. The road looked like a storybook, with white frosted trees leaning in on each side and lights gleaming from under a layer of snow, on eaves and barns and tall evergreens. It felt good to just drive by and look. To imagine next year, but to be happy right now, with our car load of greens and our drooly, grinning boy.
self portrait in the car
at the christmas tree lot
on the way to our house
my juicy little guy
gingerbread
lights
Check out more pictures from our day here
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December 10th, 2005 @ 2:04 am
Damn, you’re beautiful! I love these shots and the gingerbread dudes are brilliant! Bean is getting so big and so beautiful. What a great post!
December 10th, 2005 @ 6:09 am
wow. i like your photos; your paintings further down your blog are wonderful. you are incredibly talented. And you have a cute kid. : )
December 10th, 2005 @ 7:03 am
You have such a look of peace and joy in your eyes
December 10th, 2005 @ 9:42 am
Juicy—what a tremendous word to describe Bean! The road to your house reminds me of the early shots Bluepoppy put up when constructing Soliden. I’m very jealous of all you New England ladies with beautiful sons or butterscotch boys and your houses in the wild. You do look quite content in that picture, peaceful and happy. Perhaps also, you just had a bit of a sugar high from those yummy gingerbread men! I’ve never made them before. Save me one!
December 10th, 2005 @ 9:43 am
I love your photos; they’re so beautiful, especially the one of the road to your house. That’s incredible how pretty it is where you are. (Oh, and the boy is quite gorgeous, too!)
December 10th, 2005 @ 10:09 am
Those gingerbread men are great! The post office must’ve inspired you…
December 10th, 2005 @ 10:11 am
Magic! It’s all pure magic. You do look beautiful and content, my dear, and your boy is most definitely delicious.
I love all of the pictures, but most of all I love the road to your house - it made me think of Soliden too - but I also thought, “The White Witch could be swishing down that road any second now.” Don’t let her give you any Turkish Delight!
December 10th, 2005 @ 10:55 am
beautiful photos, Christina… just love the one of the road to your house…
December 10th, 2005 @ 12:15 pm
Great, great photos! Bean is such a cutie.
December 10th, 2005 @ 3:10 pm
I love the pics of Bean….he is so beautiful - those eyes! You are just so freaking talented woman!
December 11th, 2005 @ 2:47 am
Fun to dream of next year when you will be in your house…good that you are enjoying the now of this year. Bean is the cutest! And the snow and lights…love these pictures!
December 11th, 2005 @ 9:32 pm
I know as well as the next person that there is no such thing as a ‘perfect’ life…but dang, girl, these photos pretty much paint a portrait of one.
December 12th, 2005 @ 3:50 pm
your weekend pics are awesome and alive with color, light and white!