Winter Solstice

This year's Winter Solstice is one of the most beautiful, magical ever. We have had snow on the ground for a solid week now. And it isn't the usual Pacific Northwest slushy, sloggy, wet snow either. It is crunchy today but still fluffy underneath the crunch. It makes for great stomping and sledding. The kids finally caught sledding fever today. Rob and I are also loving it. Today is the day of solstice and, after a long adventure in the snow, we settled into soup-eating, cookie-making, lots of reading and, well, me, dinking around on the computer listening to the advent story and Pandora Christmas music. We're going to prepare a little solstice celebration and candlelit feast a la one I read about on this blog. Rob's taken a world of snowy pics to be downloaded, possibly at a much later time... And the snow is still falling! Gorgeous...

Our friend Melanie has a solstice resolution of sorts: to slow down and do less. I like that one...

Happy Winter from Snowland!