In The Meantime

I feel like the time between Christmas and New Years is like a pause, the "meantime" if you will. A space where the year slows before saying good-bye. I am normally working during this time, but it's still hard to know the date, let alone the day of the week. If I am on vacation, which I happen to be this year, I have no idea which way is up. 

 I held pretty firm with my weight loss during the holiday season, but in the "meantime" I don't seem to care. I'm not pigging out, just enjoying treats and cooking some of the things I've avoided, but love. Salad is waiting for me when I'm ready to get back to it. I've had a vegetable or two. 

 I'm sitting here at 9pm, writing in my jammies. Yep, the jammies I have had on all day. I think I'll be wearing jammies all weekend. Oh wait, we're going out for dinner tomorrow, so I guess not. Oh well, I can wear them, shower and go for dinner, and put another pair on when I get home! In "the meantime" it is important to be cozy.

 I have gotten some laundry done, dishes washed, dried, and put away, and a bit of clutter cleaned up, so at least I'm being somewhat productive. Not as much as I had hoped, but at least it's something. It's raining and gloomy out too, so that doesn't help. We would really have had a nice snowstorm if the temps were where they should be. As it is, the yard is flooded, and the snow we had is gone. It will all turn to glare ice in a few days when the temps go back to closer to normal. "The meantime" is better (in my opinion) with fun winter activities! Sledding, skiing, ice skating, and then hot cocoa afterwards. Well, I put some cocoa in my coffee this morning......

 I've listened to quite a bit of my audio book today too, "The Giver of Stars" by Jojo Moyes. Good story about some strong women. Highly recommend. I like to listen while I crochet, and I also finished the cuffs on Taters Christmas sweater (just a little late) and one pocket. I started a birthday present for Leah too, and reorganized my yarn stash. Maybe I haven't been totally unproductive today after all! It's hard to tell in "the meantime".

 My traditional holiday decorating begins mid-December, and I'm loathed to put it away New Year's Day. This year, perhaps because it has been up since the minute Thanksgiving ended, I've had enough of it. I thought about taking it down this evening while The Brown Eyed Man hangs out with his buddy at the garage, but instead I decided to make it cozy and dark in here, with just the tree and the candles. If nothing else, "the meantime" is cozy.

 I'm trying to watch "The Holiday", but the internet is being kind of a ..... today. When I'm finished writing this I'll try again, or go back to my book, and enjoy the comforting silence of "the meantime". Whatever you're up to, or not as the case may be, during this "meantime" between holidays, I hope that you take some time to slow down and enjoy the cozy. comfy silence.