a year in photos

Memory is a way of holding on to the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose.

Kevin Arnold, The Wonder Years

mom’s famous sugar cookies

You didn’t think I’d leave you hanging without this cookie recipe did you?

I’d like to think you trust me more than that.

We are friends after all.

Here you go!

Mom’s Sugar Cookies

Ingredients:

2.5 cups of sifted flour

1/4 teaspoon baking powder

1/4 tsp salt

C of butter, softened

1 1/4 tsp vanilla

1 C of confectionary sugar

Directions:

Mix the flour, baking powder, and salt together and set aside

Cream butter and vanilla until butter is softened

Add confectionary sugar gradually, cream until fluffy after each addition

Mix in the dry ingredients (my mom doesn’t add all the flour because it gets too stiff and is hard to roll out)

Then, take half the dough and roll it out until 1/4 inch thick.

Put some confectionry sugar and flour down when you roll the dough out (and sprinkle on top so it doesn’t stick to the rolling pin).

Bake at 350 degrees for 12-15 minutes. Watch them, too, because they burn easily.

Enjoy!!

Do you have a favorite christmas cookie recipe? Or some other favorite treat that’s your go-to for the holidays? My grandmother makes loads and loads of different types of Christmas cookies every year. She puts them in little holiday tins and the whole time I’m visiting I’m basically just munching and munching on cookies till my teeth hurt.

It’s a once a year thing and I’m happy to indulge in it.

“Let them eat cookies!”

felicity ♥

Felicity being on Netflix means Christmas came early for me this year. And watching it for the second time is possibly even better than the first. When Felicity first aired in 1998, I was a sophomore in high school. A mere child. It feels different to watch it again after I’ve been through college, like I can understand it better than before now that I’ve lived it. Or something like that.

Anyways, I’ve found myself getting giddy over love.

And smiling and crying and everything in between.

I love how Felicity is true to herself. Her bulky sweater fashion and her gorgeously curly hair and her need to analyze everything down to the core. I love how she stuck it out in NY and against all odds, made it work.

Mixed tapes and floppy disks and all.

Claaaassic.

This show is simply one of the best of all time. The writing, the music, the camera shots, the cast.

A diamond in the rough. And I’m so very excited that it’s back for me to experience all over again.

Weekend Picture Book

Oh, gosh. I just uploaded these pictures to my computer and all I can think is…

When can I go back?!???

True love in a weekend.