Jack and I finally got our Christmas tree up yesterday.  I always love it when it's up, but hate putting it up.  It's not even hard to do, three pieces go together and the tree already has the lights on it.  Ta da!  I take my time going through the ornaments because so many of them brink back memories for me.  Now Jack has his own ornaments with the date on them and he likes that too.  I also have a few snow globes that play music, so that interested him for quite awhile.

A lot of my ornaments are glass and he helped me hang them.  Of course one got broken and I told him that I loved him more than I loved that ornament.  That stopped him from beating himself up.  Awhile ago, I heard this woman talking on the radio about how one Christmas she had accidently broken some of her grandmother's good dishes.  Her mother called out from the other room, "I love you more than those dishes." and it touched a cord in me.  Wouldn't we all want that?  And don't we all love people more than our things?  

It's funny how the universe continues to teach us lessons, not matter how old we get.  I hope to remain curious and learning until the day I die.

I first made these cookies a few years ago when I watched Alton Brown make them on his show.  I tried to make them, they turned out and now they're one of my favorites. Chocolate Peppermint Pinwheel cookies.  If I'm honest, I think mine turned out better than his.  The only problem with them is I want to eat all of them.  I think I'll make another batch. 

 I signed up for another pottery course this morning, and Jack wanted to take one too, so I got that done as well.  Saturdays he'll have pottery and Sundays he'll have swimming.  The evening swimming and soccer didn't work well for him as he got overtired.  He's still going to bed at 7pm so it was hard for him to unwind after his lessons for him to fall asleep easily.  He was up until 8 or 830pm and he didn't sleep well.  Maybe in another year or two he can take after supper lessons again.

I pick up my glazed and fired pieces tonight and I can hardly wait.  I was more adventurous with my glazing this time and I guess I'll see how it turned out.  Fingers crossed.

Katie's trusteeshipe still isn't finished and won't be completed for almost a year.  I heard from Canada Disability Benefit yesterday and the guy reassured me that we can reapply at that time.  Now we just have to get the provincial government on board with that decision, and I need it in writing.  I'm learning :)

Not much else going on here.  Baking, vacuuming (the semi-annual dog shed is ongoing), and staying warm.  It's too cold to even take the dogs for a walk, soon we'll all have cabin fever.