Season's Greetings from balmy Central Texas! Our 60-70 degree weather hardly makes it feel like Christmas-time, but Dan and I have been doing our best to keep in the holiday spirit. This week marked the end of my first semester as a Ph.D. student. After all the final exams were taken and I finished all of my grading, Dan and I celebrated by decorating our little apartment.
With all the lights, garlands and ornaments -- we were really
worried that our Christmas tree was going to be one, big Loki toy. As we started setting up the tree, Loki was definitely intrigued. Little white paws kept creeping over the stairs and stealing ornaments and pulling on strands of lights. But once the tree was finally finished, Loki started to lose interest in attempting tree-destruction (THANK GOODNESS!!). It's hard to believe we have had our little kitty monster for almost two months. He has doubled in size and gained 4 pounds since we brought him home!
After the tree was set up, we turned to my favorite holiday tradition -- cookie baking! I may have gone a little overboard in our cookie plans for the year. In all, we made 6 different types of holiday treats (fresh caramels, cake truffles, cranberry/pistachio biscotti, Swedish gingersnaps, snickerdoodles and orange spritz cookies). Roughly 18 dozen cookies in all. Okay, so I may have over did it a bit.. but we had fun! (Anyone want some cookies?? We have plenty to spare!).
The thought of not being able to come home for the holidays has left us both a little homesick. Unfortunately, the nature of Dan's job means that he has to work most major holidays. Please try to Skype us over the week so we can say 'Hi'!
Love and miss you all,
Dan and Kristin
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