A glimpse into my house... Thursday evening, 6 pm

The carpet and padding are out, the floor is clean... we are just waiting on mineral spirits to get the yucky tape off the doorways and the transition pieces that go between the rooms. We will need a new kitchen floor after this... but even if we waited a year I wouldn't care! This living room floor is SUCH an improvement.

Although, December was not the best time to do it. We have had a crazy cold snap around here lately. We are lucky if it gets above freezing at all and we are feeling it. It is cold... and we are not used to putting on slippers to be in the house yet. To help keep a bit of distance from the cold, we have soup for dinner nearly every night and we have been very grateful for the fire place. (The kids are grateful because 'soup and a fire' usually means s'mores!)

Speaking of soup...

This was dinner tonight. With the last of the farm fare, I made this yummy minestrone with orzo pasta. The salad was the very last of the farm lettuce and cabbage with some (*sigh*) bought from the store too. It has been a high of 33* today, with us waking up with a chilly 8* outside. The fields around us are frozen... the season is officially over. It is the turning of this great mother we live on. And I know it has to happen... but thank God for hot tea, warm showers, fire places, and slippers. They are saving me this year.

The ball ornaments are still in the middle of the table. So far, only 6 have made it to the tree. This basket of them is just too pretty right where it is. Don't you agree?