Happy Holidays!

Well our first Christmas in Italy has been a smashing success! We've done nothing noteworthy... we put up our tree a couple of weeks ago and last week made Christmas cookies. Our Christmas Eve was napping, hanging out around the tree, opening gifts and eating our cookies - it's a tough job but someone has to do it. All in all, we didn't really get into the spirit of the season this year. No cards sent as I lost track of time and didn't make the three week advance mailing, we did few gifts and no travel or big meals. Having a low stress holiday really isn't too bad.

Today, Christmas Day, we had a friend over for a small dinner and spent the rest of the evening around the fireplace with a bottle of Prosecco. A few calls home made the day complete. Now we're ready to unplug the tree and call it a day.

Buon Natale everyone!