Today I'm grateful for the smell of cookies baking in the house. I truly believe it would be impossible to keep from smiling when you smell the wonderful aroma of baking. I don't do it often but today I made chocolate chip cookies, shortbread, and blondie bars. Tomorrow I'm going to do Ginger Snaps. I'm felling happy.

It made me REALLY happy to see the post by @jodeej. That is just the perfect image of being comfortable together - the babies, dogs, girls, boys - all doing their own things together. I love it.

And @gingerw - Congratulations on your clean up effort. You gave me the idea to talk to my sewing buddies about having a sewing swap after the holidays. Everybody can clean out their sewing room and put what they don't want up for trade! I know the feeling of seeing things I haven't thought about for years - and sometimes didn't even know I owned.