Eti wanted overalls more than anything else for Christmas.  It is really hard to find overalls size seven, but Steve's parents live in farm-ville and were able to find a pair at the local tractor supply company.  Eti wore them for three days in a row, slept in them, and begged me to put him in the washer with them when I washed them.

Every day he has something new in the pockets, on this day it was gum my Dad had given him.  He went around in his serious voice (it is quite bit lower than his everyday voice) asking if anyone would like some gum.

The window above the sink got fogged up and steve drew our initials on a heart, later when he came in the room he saw that a chair had been dragged over to the sink.  Apparently Eti wanted to be included.  We laughed over it because it reminded us of when he was a toddler whenever Steve and I would hug it was always Eti who was elbowing his way between us and would stand their hugging our legs, just wanting to be part of the love.

I closed out my wedding year by flying to Atlanta, I met the bride, Kezia last year through my friend Sherry.

So here I was spending the night at Kezia's house far from home, missing my kids and best friend.  And so heavy with the weight of the upcoming wedding.

I remembered that I did not take a picture that day and decided to get a picture of the bed I was sleeping in that night.

Kezia said, "You get a treat tonight, you can sleep in the bed I slept in many times as a young girl it is my Grandmother's antique bed."  And it was a treat, it was a very high sleigh bed with very cool carvings in the wood. The best part was the old white comforter that was so much like what my Grandmother had at her old farmhouse.

Visual things like this that bring us back to our past, good memories of our past can be so calming

The next day I drove all over Atlanta scoping out locations with the bride's best friend who has worked at CNN for over twenty years.

Looking out the window from inside CNN.