Tag: gifts

• With Happy Hearts

  This pillow encapsulates our Christmas season. And our year, actually. A year with painful goodbyes and stitched up hearts. A year of warmth and growth. I’ll remember this year as the one where Wells chimed in reading ‘Twas the Night Before Christmas,’ alternating pages with Fitz and I while Gus listened. I’ll recall how Fitz […]

  KellyQAnderson

  December 26, 2019

  Chicago, Holiday, Love

  boston terrier, christmas, dogs, family dinner, gifts, Holiday, holiday party, home alone, new year, seasonal, snow, wonder

• Christmas & Other Things

  New stockings to welcome the newest family member (Putter the dog) Annual holiday party, with candied bacon winning again for best bite A Home Alone-themed party in which Fitz dressed as Gus Polinski, polka king of the Midwest (he took clarinet lessons, people. CLARINET LESSONS) Hot tea, green juice, water, repeat (also: prayers for my […]

  KellyQAnderson

  December 19, 2019

  Chicago, Holiday, Lifestyle

  botanic garden, Chicago, Chicago north shore, chicago suburbs, christmas time, city, gifts, glencoe, gus, home alone, lightscape, merry christmas, merry merry, Midwest, north shore, putter, saveur