I am grateful for dinner swap, for evenings of overlapping conversations, commiseration and companionship, snuggled in with tea in our various living rooms... and a week's worth of dinners, to boot.
I am grateful for peanut butter chocolate chip cookies.
I am grateful for heated seats
I am grateful for playdates and hand-me-downs and the glorious variety of architecture in this town of mine. I never tire of studying the houses that fill these tree-lined streets, an over-abundance of visual interest and intrigue. I am grateful for the beauty and quality and richness and creativity of architecture from the early twentieth century, and especially for half-baths carved out under the back stairs, and butler's pantries, and attics, and rooflines, and ....
I am grateful for my funny and wonderful and well-behaved children, for Ivy's giggle and Jack's laser-like focus and their intense beauty and the line of their jaws and their sweet, small-nosed profiles.
I am grateful for a quiet dusting of snow and a soft city-night light on a momentarily empty street.
Savings today:
We bought an electric griddle. We had breakfast for dinner and my god, I don't know why we didn't buy an electric griddle years ago. It may be life changing.
And, it was on super-sale. In fact, we went to Macy's just to buy it. $19.99 down from $50.
Even if that's all creative mark-up-then-down-ing, nothing more than a manipulative tactic on the part of a large chain-- I'm counting it.
Savings: $30
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