We are going into the “busy” time of the year. Don’t forget about the experience of just being. Spend some time enjoying your home and family. Jill writes about seasonal rituals. Enjoy. Thanks Jill
For six months of the year we make a ritual of laying and lighting a fire in the fireplace and sitting around in the evenings and on weekends. We begin our fire ritual on the 1st really cold October day. We have swivel chairs on either side of our fireplace with a reading table in between and we tend to sit and read, talk and relax, and gaze into the flames. We keep our house cool in the winter so the warmth of the fire brings us all together. We often move the books off the table and eat supper in front of the fire with our children.
Words from Alexandra Stoddard:
My first memory of visiting my Godmother in Framingham, Massachsetts, when I was five, was sleeping in the guest room in a high mahogany four-poster bed that faced a beautifully carved mantel, there was a crackling fire…
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