SO...here we are

on the other side of the calendar!!!

It is officially the

New Year.!!!!!

two thousand

and

eleven!!

How did we get here so fast?

and

what I wonder

is this new year

 spread out in front of us

 going to bring?

I wrote a whole bunch of stuff

yesterday

sitting and thinking about the past year

and I deleted it

all

the year is over and gone

this new one is a new beginning

a fresh start

let's go with that!!!

I found all these photos on the camera

this morning

taken over the past few days

put down and forgotten

so when I loaded them I found

these that I post

(obviously!!)

in with the new

the amaryllis

finally bloomed

in between Christmas and the New Year

love it

it's white!!!!!

out with the old

the Christmas roses

dried up and died

so out with the dried up and dead!

in more ways than one!!

this blurry shot was yesterday morning

first thing

the moon and a bright star

with the sunrise beside it

the last day of the old year

but still so lovely

this heart is for the hope that you had a great time over the past few weeks

getting all the things done that you planned for

that you were surrounded with love of family and friends

and carry that feeling into the new year

I did a tiny bit of baking on Christmas Eve

I used to spend three weeks in the kitchen

baking my little socks off

when my Mother was still alive

she would watch from the sidelines

and tell me how much I reminded her of her mother

someone I never knew

but was somehow like and connected to

my mother couldn't bake

for all the tea in china

so I got the baking gene I guess

I had to get something

!!!

my sister got so many other genes.....

a good brain... the ability to reason and do things right!!!!

Organisational skills up the kazoo

me

I bake and make a mess!!

in more ways than one...

but I love it so all's well!!!

I have gone back to drinking tea these past few weeks

I haven't had a cup of tea for so long I don't remember

I have a cup in the afternoon and obviously this one came with the best

butter cookies I ever made!!

I got the mug in the grocery store because  it was on sale and I like the faces!!!

and I have lost my Christmas mugs

note to self

charity shop visit added to list of things to do!!!

or a really good sale at the other shops

were things are 80% off and another 25% at the check out

and they still make a profit!!!!

:)

this is here because the husband pointed it out

the sun is shining in the lamp

and we have

solar powered light!!!!

:)

I made myself some fingerless mittens

and

you know what

they DO work

you just have to get used to the

fingers being out there and naked!!

and I put them on in the early morning in

theroomontheleft

until they annoy me and I take them off!!!

and finally

(I hear the cheering)

this is what I made yesterday

a whole pile of

piragi

Latvian style

(also now called bacon buns")

they are a staple at celebrations in Latvian culture

(little yeast dough buns stuffed with bacon and onions and nothing like the Polish ones)

my husband doesn't get to partake anymore and he sorely misses them

so out of the goodness 

of my little cotton socks

(an expression my father used to use)

I made him some

the husband not the father!!

this is what I left him with

he ate them

and was happy

and now I really did it

and will have to make him more

more often

because now he knows I know how to make them

..............................

:o