Saturday, January 03, 2009

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year... a bit late


Well, this a bit late, but I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas with your family and friends, and had time to reflect on the true meaning of CHRISTmas!

My husband and I took a friend of ours, who is an international college student from Korea, up to Wisconsin to visit my family for Christmas. There's a crazy amount of snow in Wisconsin this year - close to 30" when we got there! Our friend had never seen so much snow, so we had fun with snowball fights and giddily playing around in the snow. It reminded me of winters when I was young. We would dig snow tunnels through our backyard (like in the photo above). Our small city in Wisconsin would flood the football fields at the elementary schools to make them into ice skating rinks, and we would ice skate for recess! These kind of moments that transport me back to being a kid are incredible bits of momentum for writing and illustrating picture books. May your new year be filled with childhood memory momentum too.

My husband and I spent New Year's in romantic New Harmony, IN.

2 comments:

Ginger*:) said...

Hi Kristi, and Happy New Year. As someone who grew up in Evansville, Indiana, I remember New Harmony and many other towns. You are right New Harmony is a romantic spot. I wish you great happiness and success in the coming year.

C.B. Canga said...

nice work on this blog