a long overdue blog post

Can you believe it's been three months since I've posted? I can't. Time is moving so quickly.

Here are some things that happened in the last three months:
- we moved to our new house
- both sets of our parents came to visit us
- we experienced our first Boston snowfall
- we traveled home for Thanksgiving

So where to start?

The house is only partially clean so I will withhold some pictures until I've tidied it. But here are a few carefully framed photos to hide the messiness (complete with Christmas decorations!):

We have two living rooms (it's a weird layout). We've set up our Christmas tree in the front room. I will take a better picture of the front room later on this week because we're expecting our new couch to be delivered on Wednesday!

Our other living room has a fireplace. We're still figuring out what to put on the mantle. But right now it's being filled with our "The Greatest Gift" advent ornaments. Thanks Lea!

One challenge in finding a place to live in Boston was finding somewhere with enough space for our table. Luckily this house does have a space.

Patrick is working on converting this wardrobe into a sewing wardrobe for me. I've already put some stuff in there but eventually I'll have a sewing table that folds down from it.

You can tell we've turned into New Englanders by the number of coats and boots we've amassed. (And scarves and hats and gloves, but you can't see those.) And you can tell we're city dwellers because we now have our own personal shopping cart (the blue thing). We live a block from the grocery store so I just walk with my little cart there. When we moved here a coat closet wasn't even on our list of things that would be nice to have. Now I'd put it at the top of the list for sure. When you have to take off ten things as soon as you hit the door it's nice to have a place for them!

More later. Our company holiday party is tonight so we're off to the masquerade ball!