K.L. Kranes

So, it’s now 10 days into 2017. (10 already? Time goes so fast!) I’m back to my relatively regimented schedule of working, writing, laundry, cleaning, etc, basically, all the stuff of a peaceful daily life. Once we (the proverbial “we”) get back in our routines after a vacation or big event, I think we can start to forget all the great memories we’ve made. They get buried, like an old photograph in the bottom of a box.

So, before all my memories get lost in the basement of my mind, I want to document my top 10 best moments of the 2016 vacation holiday season (in no particular order)!

1. Actually going to a movie. It’s so rare we get to do this. We picked a good one, Rogue One. (It. Was. Awesome.)

2. Buying my daughter her first pointe shoes (and learning a lot about pointe shoes in the process).

3. Hanging with Friends on New Year’s Eve and learning how to play craps.

4. Building a stretch board thing with my daughter and my Dad. (Don’t ask me what this is exactly. My daughter wanted it for ballet and my Dad helped her make it. I mostly watched.)

5. Dance parties in the house. (Quote from my husband: Only in a house with 5 females –  he’s counting the dog – does a spontaneous dance party break out.)

6. Visiting the O Street Museum in DC with the fam. (see entire blog about that here. That place was awesome!)

7. Cookie Partaaay!!! (You can read a poem about that here, if you’d like. It was a lot of fun.)

8. Christmas day with the family and friends (lots of animals “adopted” and rescued).

9. Writing book #2 of The Travelers (I’m 95% completed)!!

10. Making, then unmaking, then re-making, then decorating and then enjoying talking about and looking at the book-mas tree. (It really is a conversation starter! Can’t wait to make it even bigger and better next year!)