Amazing is...

[Alternate title: Not Enough Positive Adjectives 

in the English Language.]

Friendship is...

The easy comfortable 'let's get pizza and be'.

Breakfast is...

Time with the sweet friend, 

about to head away.

A Gift is...

The friendship of a child.

A Weekend is...

A Surprise is...

Ladybug Coffee.

A Resolution is...

Take more advantage of downtown.

Pretty is...

(Alternate title: Late to the meeting.)

Winter is...

A Snow Day is...

Snow Day Nachos. 

A Day Made is...

When you have new scholars showing up for a new semester, and one brings the most beautiful (and delicious) chocolate you've ever seen straight from Columbia, and the other stops short upon meeting you to tell you how beautiful you are (amplified by her pretty South African accent), it's a pretty good place to be. 

Morning is...

 Moonshine.

Deliverance is...

My prayer corner, 

in which to close out a day.

Delicious is...

Friday Night.

Dancing with Daddy ("Look at meeeee Auntie LoLo!")

Stromboli? Good idea.

The horses made it out ok in the long run.

(We are not telling a lie.)

Captured right before the first yawn of the night.

A New Year is...

A New Perspective.

Beauty is...

Time.

Peace is...

Knowing where your milk comes from, at the end of the day.

Spoiled is...

Awaking before the sun with the thought, "I will get up," and then the next thing you know you are emerging hours later from the deep deep slumber. 

Hope is...

Getting myself TOGETHER.

Renewal is...

Recovery is...

Still in my scrugs and nearing 2 p.m., 

literally staring at the floor. 

(Hallelujah.)

New Year's Day to Boot

We started it off with sleepy brunch,

and then we headed into the woods
for our now-traditional New Year's Hike:

 We got home as the sun set, 

and Sara and I wandered to a quiet closed-up downtown,

 for dinner on the roof-top

with a view of all to come.