A Clean Slate

Happy New Year!  The first days of January 2012 have been beautiful here in Scituate.  Crisp air and blue skies.  We spent New Year’s Day and Monday enjoying time together.  A long walk in Wheelwright Park in Cohasset with the kids and Poppy and a long walk on Minot Beach.

We also spent time on New Year’s Day taking down all the Christmas decorations.  Usually, I’m so sad about this but they’d been up since the day after Thanksgiving and to tell you the truth I was feeling claustrophobic in our living room.  Luke also has this English superstition where they need to come down before twelfth night (January 6th) or you’ll have bad luck.  I certainly don’t want to start the new year with bad luck.  I do miss the fairy lights, though 🙁

Here is how the mantel looks now: