hansel & hansel (he’s so hot now)

December 18, 2008 | Filed Under familial 

hooray for a few more days of insanity that will fling us boots first into vacation slow motion mode!

the last few orders for christmas are nearly ready to launch, the house smells like a cookie, a giant sugary cookie, the boys are high on candy from frequent nibbling on their not-gingerbread houses (about which i’m trying not to be too witchy about, it’s hard, though, very hard,  especially when i’m running on coffee and cookies myself, sleep deprived, glue and paper shreds stuck to the bottoms of my forearms).  i’m thinking in colors of christmas, golden and snow, the blur of large family hubub to come.  the christmas tree makes me  happy, simply, especially the weird way the ornaments are hung and rehung in clumps and random solitude.  jude’s rudolph, henry’s goateed santa, the nest of wired gold garland jude globbed together and hung on a low branch under lights, the animals annie made, the one legged, still smiling santa, ornaments with ernie’s name that are dated “1986″ and “1990″, handmade gifts from his mother so we wouldn’t be ornamentless our first christmas, the wondrous tree stand josh made for us (though it was intended for the show but ended up being too small, sorry josh, you know i really am).

it’s warm outside today, yesterday.  jude in short sleeves, the earth under the swing sprouting something green.  i hope for snow after we drive, hoping for the blue glitter of it, boys with soggy mittens and red noses making angels, balls, people.  it’s been a long time since i’ve been in the snow, and when i was my feet were cold and i complained.

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