Work

Isabelle had to go to work the yesterday. An "important meeting" she had to attend, she told us.

"What do you do at work?" we asked.

"I make M&Ms for her," she declared, pointing back at her baby doll.

Winter Wonderland

Ten inches of snow on the ground, nine Christmas albums on shuffle, eight hours for the split pea soup to cook, seven cousins soon to reunite, six trains that keep falling off their tracks, five days 'til Christmas, four juices to mix with the champagne, three Christmas trees twinkling, two cars parked in the garage, and one splendid girl eating snow cones topped with pomegranate seeds.