coffee date.
we're back! we're back! we're back for another coffee date! and let's call this a holiday catch-up while we're at it! all aboard the efficiency train!
(sure, caribou, i'd love for you to sponsor me, i think that would be perfect!)
how was your christmas?? was it great? were there cookies and cocktails and carols? i hope so, because i think that christmas is great and i like you and hope yours was great.
my christmas was pretty awesome. amelia just about lost her mind opening presents and entertaining the families with her walking and talking (wouldn't it be great if that was all it took to impress people when we're older?). she is most definitely a people person. sure, she needs breaks every couple of days, but she loves to be social and is at her brightest when she's "performing" for a group of people. not that any of us mind watching her...she's quite entertaining!
[wearing one of her three christmas dresses. girl's gotta have options!]
[we have a christmas morning bloody mary tradition at my family's. this year's edition was good.]
|||
today at our coffee date, i'm going to indulge a bit and have a caramel salted vanilla latte. we're still in the holiday season, so it's fine to get a little fancy, you know? i'll treat you today, because it's the holidays and we're friends, and i'd like to do that for you. please don't try to talk me out of it, because it won't work, and friends let friends buy their coffees for them when they offer.
the time between christmas and new year's is a bit like the eye of a hurricane, isn't it? it's so calm, you feel a little tired after all the fun, but you're still looking forward to another holiday in just a week, so it's all still fun really. i always like that time, it feels like being in a bubble, safe from regular life.
but now it's the last day of 2015, and i feel like i'm on the edge of everything. the planning i haven't done, the goals i haven't quite set, those are all a little nagging right now. because tomorrow i'll have to leave the safe holiday bubble and go back to the real world. at least we have a whole three-day weekend in between us and the real world, right? do you get this feeling too, or are you one of those who just can't wait for the freshness of the new year? if you are one of those people, i like that about you. i like people who are joyful about the changes that always come our way and who face the newness head on. you're alright by me.
today during coffee you'd get to see my new planner. it's gold and polka-dotted and has a pretty binder clip on it. i love it with all my heart. deep down i wish it was a fancy life planner like all the cool bloggers have, but i'm afraid i'm too flaky for such a nice planner so i stick to the simple ones. have you tried bullet journaling yet? i want to try it SO BADLY, but i just haven't researched it enough yet. this lady here has some amazing bullet journal posts, but i need a REALLY basic introduction to help me understand her methods better. if you have a really good intro, can you share it with me? i'd love you forever.
i'm going to give you a big hug now and send you off to your new year's eve plans. if you're cool like me, you'll be staying in, drinking prosecco and watching old tv shows with your better half. if you're an even bigger party animal than me (is that possible?) you might have a party to get dressed up for...in which case please tell me all about it this weekend so i can live vicariously through you. i hope your 2015 has been everything you wished for and more, and that your 2016 starts with all the happiness in the world. thank you for spending some of your 2015 with me here, i hope you stick around for another year of love and laughs.
elsewhere with love: bloglovin’ || facebook || twitter || instagram