christmas in the empty nest

so as i said before, i am planning to celebrate a lovely christmas this year.  a very very very lovely one.

so i think i mentioned earlier that i keep my holidays separate, and i don't rush the seasons.  no tree up at the thanksgiving table, no take down on the 26th.  i still don't even have a tree up, mostly because i won't be here in new york for christmas and i don't want to transport a tree to the wilds of pennsylvania.  i do have some pomander balls and poinsettias and candles scattered around the apartment, and i spent a lovely day or two watching christmas movies, and decorating sugar cookies to my hearts content with a dear friend at her connecticut farmhouse which was so cozy and festive i simply could not believe it.  so fortified with the yuletide spirit, i march onward to my own domestic holiday with glee.

 so now i am so inspired and truly can't wait for christmas. i'm glad i still have so much to look forward to.  i am not christmassed out.  i ran some errands in manhattan today, and was stunned buy the lack of crowds.  everyone seems to be done with their christmas shopping i suppose.  i have not even begun.

i am still recovering and restructuring from last years fiasco when i sat and wept with fear after being stood up for christmas and so i need to create all new traditions, and i shall.  the rough plan is to stay here in brooklyn till saturday.  drive to pennsylvania to my little house early in the morning.  chop down a tree in the snow.  preferably a little one.  off kilter and spare.  then i'm going to drag it home and put the wet little thing in a stand and towel it off (it will be snowing) and decorate the rangy little sprig on sunday.  maybe with gumdrops.  and popcorn.  silver icicles too!  also going to decorate the house with tons of ribbons and holly and evergreen cut fresh from outside.  then i will tie on my apron and pull out the trusty kitchen aid, and bake.

baking list:

gingerbread 

peanut butter blossoms
russian teacakes

on christmas eve i believe i will go to my local chinese restaurant for dinner.

then after dinner i shall draw a hot bath, have a stiff drink, put on my prettiest silk jammies, douse myself with fifi chachnil, light a million candles, hang chases tiny little stocking, put out cookies and a cup of milk for santa, because of course i will...and carrots for the reindeer. sleep like a baby surrounded by soft miniasscule fairy lights and keep the tv on with a christmas story looping.
 i shall wake up to fresh snow, hug chase, make coffee,  scramble some eggs, listen to music, cause i'm not sick of it yet, and then build a roaring fire in the fireplace and sit and watch the snow fall cause where i'm going, there is a white christmas in the forecast.  yes i am dreaming of a white christmas.



peace  xx