Home and Sass: Izzy's First Noel /// A Highlight Reel

Well, I've stayed up wayyy past my bedtime editing these pictures. {Thanks to a bag of Hershey kisses and Bravo's nasty Vanderpump Rules }. This was a special year for us, it being Isabelie's first Christmas. We were so lucky to be able to spend that time with our families, and it flew by much too fast for my liking.

Some of our favorite things: dressing Izzy up like a sweet Christmas doll; super-thoughtful gifts from family {ahem: Will & Cait!!!}, wearing perma-pjs for the day, my mom's lamb on the grill, Will's mom's turkey.... watching others open their gifts, all of that wonderful Christmas music.. the traditional hymns.. the Frasier Fir smell... the lights...

That Christmasey feeling is the best, and going back to work a couple of days after all of that festivity felt very very wrong... There's something about the end of vacations, especially in the winter... it can feel quite depressing and melancholy.

I start to get that old boarding-school-sad-ache, and it's mighty hard to shake it. The trees are bare, the sun is low, the sky is grey.. Throw in some freezing temps & lots of darkness?? Pretty gross.

Which is why I'd like to leave the Christmas tree up til, oh I don't know.... March?

Can we agree on March? {Will??}
Hot yoga is also a good solution.
Hot yoga & hot chocolate. A little winter band-aid.