New Year's Eve Eve....

....and the sun is shining and it's cold cold cold but pretty pretty pretty.  Just checking in with you and hoping your last days of December are full of hope and love and joy and good health and peace.  I'd be lying if I said I wasn't worried about the future, but we have to get out of bed and live our lives and try to be the best people we can be in spite of all the challenges that we face personally and in our country and globally.  I'm trying to focus on what I have, not on what I have not, and man, I am so fortunate to have my family and friends and Rusty and sooooo many things that I'm sure I take for granted every day....it's important to focus on the good, try to change the bad, and be a positive force in the world, sending out love and peace and good karma and fabulous vibes.  When we lose our positivity, we've lost everything and the bad guys win.  I want the good guys to win.  Nice guys do NOT have to finish last, goshdarnit!!!  Not in the world I want to live in, anyway!

Here are my very first spritz cookies of the season getting ready to be popped into the oven.  Life's little pleasures :-)  I'm happy I gave most of them away or my middle would look like a tree trunk! :-O