It’s been… well, it’s been a week. I honestly didn’t feel like writing this up after the whole mess, but I figured if there’s a good time to write one of these posts it’s when things aren’t that great. There’s a lot of stress in the world right now, and I’m not going to say too much about it, because this is supposed to be my happy place, but nevertheless I’m thankful for-

Voices of Reason
We need them now, more than ever.

Soft blankets
When the world is out of control, sometimes you just need to curl into a ball and wrap up in a layer of warm and snuggly.

Ballet
On a happier note, I fell down a bit of a fine arts rabbit hole the other day. Having a character whose a dancer, every now and then I wonder into the dancing side of youtube, but somehow I hadn’t landed on the full ballet performances before. Weirdly surprised at how much I remembered from the first part of Swan Lake, which my dad had a video of when I was a kid.

A Clean(er) House
I took the last bit of time from Christmas Break to tackle the mess that is our house. It’s not perfect, by any means, but it feels a little easier to breathe without the clutter.

Frosted Tips
We had more snow. Not like the amount we had around Christmas. Really just a little more than a coating, but for some reason this batch was very persistent in clinging to the tree-tops, so the mountains had this silver-white gleam this morning that’s still clinging to the very highest trees, even as the snow has began to mix with rain.