Happy New Year to All, The snow, storm, school cancelation, time in hand made me to work on the projects that I could not get into year 2013. This has been lovely and I am enjoying my time with my lovely family. Nicolette get to practice her Rainbows to her B’day chart while I get to sew and stock my little shop.
This year begins with the winter storm giving us the most wanted things like the cozy blankets and comfort food.
I started off my vacation with plenty of baking and cooking and some to give away for neighbors. I was overwhelmed from baking I am going to bake less next year.
Kids enjoyed their vacation with more munching and drinking hot coco.
Little Nicolette ate banana bread for breakfast until, I could not serve anymore for her. We end up only doing two batches of cookies this year and for sure they are gone!
Little one seems to enjoy hot chocolate a lot more this winter. I decided to add a little station this year to our new kitchen counter. She is loving it and it is very convenient for everyone. The most disappearing items seem to be marshmallows and peppermint sticks.
Our paperwhites are in bloom at least one. The other one has recently send its bloom stalk up. Any time it will bloom too. We cannot take its strong fragrance up stairs in Nicolettes room; so we decided to bring it to the kitchen.
I love this idea making a small space for hot chocolate, what do you keep at your finger tips during holidays.
I was in a mission to write many posts this year; because, I have been posting the same number of posts for the couple of last few years. Years 2012 and 2011 both sum up to 119 posts published, but, I am still posting this year and way over 119 posts.
I do not have a big number following my blog but I love my usual comments, and a big thank you goes to Meryl Carver from My Bit of Earth. I love reading her blog which has inspire me in many ways. I share many of her interests which Meryl blogs in her blog.
This year has been my second year blogging while at work. I learned to value time more than any thing this year. It has been a great year, teaching is getting back to me and I have begun to share my love with children in class including forcing bulbs. Thanks to many posts on internet.
We are working on a big project, this year and will be posting about it this spring. We are all excited about that and more to come.
I am happy to enjoy the time off from work, it is not exactly time off for me, but I get to do few things I love the most, reading, sewing, knitting, and ofcourse stocking my little shop.
Holiday baking is taking shape, and enjoying catching up with friends and neighbors.
I am planning to blog more in 2014.
This year I became an owner of two Christmas cactus plants, and I hope to keep them alive throughout the year. I love the color of the plant which is in bud state. It reminds me of the coral pink or the light orange I use to love as a teenager. I have seen this plant in bloom at my neighbors and they are so beautiful and love it.
Seemingly,it is easy to take care of this wonderful plant. It needs less water; however, the temperature seems to be in 50-60 F degrees that is going to be tricky in our house. I would love to see the one yet to bloom. I can see the tiny buds. It is amazing to see at the tip of this flat leaf there is a wonderful bloom. It is definitely the structure adds a bit of drama to this beautiful plant.
I love this instead of poinsettia which could be a challenge to take care and usually been toss in the trash after holidays.
Past summer, I was thrifting with a friend, and I did some great scores. One was these wonderful bulb vases. I have eyed these at a garden shop and wanted to buy them for a while. Finally when I saw them for .25 cents, I decided to grab them all. I have been planting bulbs at school with my older kids, we are doing a bulb study.
It was fun to do this small project with Nicolette. She had a great time with it and wanted to plant more, but I did not have any; because, we have planted them all. Her paper whites have bloomed and smells great in her room.
Have you ever forced hyacinth bulbs inside and had luck with it. I am looking forward to see results. We will be observing them closely.
