Enjoying: Small Things

November 20, 2015 By Kelle

With an entire week off from school ahead, our holiday starts when I pick up Lainey from school today. I have grand visions of movies and baking and hopefully our first fire in the fireplace, so today my work is cut out for me.

Small things we’ve been enjoying lately:

This gargantuan fall leaf I found outside of Jefferson Memorial last week.

The way he enthusiastically greets everyone he sees. Hi, Man! Hi, Lady!

Opening Season for our little village, always the first thing we put out every holiday. I want to crawl up in the Village Inn, drop my mail off at the little Post Office, sing Christmas hymns in the old church with the stained glass windows and the broken steeple. This village makes us so happy every year. I should add that the Village newspaper has their headlines laid out for them this season with Dash: Missing Caroler at the Depot; Villagers Flee Nutcracker, Afraid for Their Lives; Ballerina Found Wedged in Church’s Broken Steeple.

The most perfect twirly dress ever, her new favorite.

Couch shadows.

Her getting-ready-for-school routine, no longer needing an ounce of my help. Hair, clothes, backpack–she’s got this.

Easily sneaking up on Sophie for a close-up sleeping pic because our girl is getting old and can’t hear a darn thing anymore.

This T-Rex that makes his rounds. I find him on the nightstand, in the bathtub, in the car, under the dining room table. I hardly see Dash playing with him, but still he moves. I swear, he comes alive at night and roams the house.

Keeping Nella and Dash home from school yesterday for runny noses and a gracious thought to the other kids in their classrooms when really their noses weren’t that bad. We had fun.

“Beekia,” her favorite Barbie to play with as of late and Paquel’s best friend. I don’t know how she can tell them all apart, but God forbid you mix up Grocery Store with Beekia. She’ll set you straight.

These fluffy little green things. Our hotel bar in D.C. had vases of them displayed and I loved them, so I found some at Whole Foods when we got home, shoved some berries in them and voila–a centerpiece that doesn’t block our vision.