Dec. 21st, 2013

darchildre: a candle surrounded by pine branches (yule)
The Shortest Day

And so the Shortest Day came and the year died
And everywhere down the centuries of the snow-white world
Came people singing, dancing,
To drive the dark away.
They lighted candles in the winter trees;
They hung their homes with evergreen;
They burned beseeching fires all night long
To keep the year alive.
And when the new year's sunshine blazed awake
They shouted, reveling.
Through all the frosty ages you can hear them
Echoing behind us - listen!
All the long echoes, sing the same delight,
This Shortest Day,
As promise wakens in the sleeping land:
They carol, feast, give thanks,
And dearly love their friends,
And hope for peace.
And now so do we, here, now,
This year and every year.
Welcome Yule!

~Susan Cooper
darchildre: clark kent drinking cocoa with his mom (cocoa with the kents)
First of all, Auntie Moe made it safely to Auntie Lamb's house and they seem to have reconciled somewhat. Or, at least, they went thrifting together, and thrifting with Auntie Lamb is not an activity for the faint of heart. So that's good.

I am having a baking day! I have made peppermint cherry cookies, because those are my contribution to the panoply of Christmas cookies, and bread dough. The bread dough is for the tradition Christmas-Eve-morning cinnamon rolls, but since the dough can be refrigerated after the first rise until I need it, I decided to make it ahead of time. (Actually, I made about double the amount of dough I need, so I'm planning to freeze the other half. Then I will have bread dough/potential cinnamon rolls at some as-yet-unforeseen future time. Hurrah!)

I was planning to also make pie crust for a thing I'm doing later in the week, but I think that may wait till tomorrow.

And now, I am taking a break.

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