holidays – Page 2 – Jennifer Michie

February 1, 2026 / 0 Comments

HELLO, February

Hello, February, you beautiful month of L❤️VE! Oh, you bring us so much this month. We’re ready for new adventures to unfold, new places to discover and new surroundings on the horizon.

You bring with you the “Year of the Horse” and I think this fire horse shall come charging into its year as we leave the snake behind. We’re ready for the birthdays we celebrate this month. We’re ready for the school break you bring and the chance that gives us to check a few things off that old “Honey Do” list together! We’re ready for cold fresh days with the promise of snow in the air.

We’re ready to hunker down on cold evenings with a good book in hand or a favourite cozy movie and just be, breathing in and happily exhausted from the extra hard work we’re putting in on a new project.

We’re ready to move forward as always with intention, hearts open wide and embrace all that you have to offer. Here’s to candlelight, kitchen dance parties, pancakes for dinner and hot chocolate filled afternoon walks. Welcome, February!

{Babar Goes Skiing | Laurent de Brunhoff | New York/Random House | 1969 | Pinned HERE}

January 1, 2026 / 0 Comments

Happy New Year

🍾✨ HAPPY NEW YEAR! ✨🍾

May this New Year lay an abundance of love, light and blessings upon your door. x

{New Year’s Eve Celebration | 1957 | Stan Wayman | Pinned HERE}

December 31, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy New Year’s Eve

So much has happened in the past 365 days and then again so little. This year has had its challenges and still more to come. But we stand waiting for the New Year, hand in hand and shall face what the future brings together. We walk in faith.

May this coming year hold peace, love and light for us all. Wishing you love as we kiss this past year goodbye and open our arms in greeting to the new one about to dawn.

{Swedish-American actress Ann-Margret dancing among colourful balloons and streamers | 1963 | Photo by Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

December 25, 2025 / 0 Comments

Merry Christmas

🎄❤️ MERRY CHRISTMAS! ❤️🎄

May your day be Merry and Bright! ✨

{Promotional studio portrait of American actor Shirley Jones standing in front of decorative tinsel and holding an armful of wrapped Christmas presents. | 1955 | Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

December 24, 2025 / 0 Comments

Merry Christmas Eve

The stockings are hung, the presents are wrapped and we are awaiting the magical sound of sleigh bells in the air…

{Marjorie Lord | The Danny Thomas Show | 1960 | The Everett Collection | Pinned HERE}

December 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, December

Hello, December. We closed November on a flutter and have started you with a whirl! We’re ready for all the anticipation and excitement you bring this month. We’re ready for an evening Christmas light stroll, with hot chocolates in hand. We’re ready for frosty mornings outside, while inside we feast on fresh cinnamon buns and hot coffee in the warmth.

We’re ready to finally finish the Christmas puzzle we’ve been working on since last Christmas. This has been a hazy, dazy, crazy year and the puzzle got moved to one side in the New Year and that was that. But with a good afternoon ahead of us and a bowl of popcorn between us, we know it can be completed.

We’re ready to sit and be, basking in the glow of the Christmas tree, while Dean Martin spins on the record player, crooning out a Christmas carol. We’re ready for the annual school break, so that we can soak up each other’s company.

We’re ready for all that you bring in this most hallowed of seasons. Welcome, December, we’re awaiting you with bells on.

{Vintage East European Matchbox Cover | Found HERE | Pinned HERE}

November 27, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving

🦃🧡 Happy Thanksgiving! 🧡🦃

May your table be surrounded by those that you love. Here’s to family that you can call friends and to friends that you can call family.

{American actress Jeanne Crain and her husband Paul Brinkman cooking a large turkey at home | 1955 | Photo by Graphic House/Archive Photos/Getty Images | Pinned HERE}

November 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, November

Hello, November. We’re ready to see where you take us in these new chapters. So far, our fall has been a whirlwind. As if we have been swept up with the leaves and formed a little leaf tornado. Blowing and twirling in the breeze, dancing down the street as we go. And that is what an adventure is all about; taking the road less traveled.

We’re ready for evenings to close in earlier with candles lit, board games or cards flowing and hot apple ciders at hand. We’re ready for all things apple. We’ve already been making batch after batch of applesauce, with the most luscious Kissabel apples and it is the reddest applesauce we’ve ever made and it is simply glorious!

We’re ready for Bonfire Night and Thanksgiving. We’re ready for gingerbread cake and pumpkin pie. We’re ready for our annual “Alan Alda Weekend”, where we make stew or pot roast and watch “Same Time, Next Year” and “The Four Seasons”. Two of my favourites. While staying tucked in the house all weekend, feasting, watching and just being, happy as always in each other’s company.

We’re ready for crispy morning strolls where the remnant smells of woodsmoke still cling to the air as we make our way to a favourite breakfast joint to feast on waffles and eggs and hot coffee.

You hold so much in this season of Thanksgiving. And we have so much to be grateful for. Welcome, November, we’re ready for all that you bring.

{“Forest Children” by Loré Pemberton | Pinned HERE}

October 31, 2025 / 0 Comments

Happy Halloween

🎃🖤🧡 Happy Halloween! 🧡🖤🎃

I hope it’s electrifying! ⚡️

{“The Lovers” by Dalmatian Nation | Pinned HERE}

October 1, 2025 / 0 Comments

HELLO, October

Hello, October! We’re ready for more crunchy leaves underfoot and these cooler days to remain. The nights are drawing in sooner and there is a definite change to the colour of the light and shift in the shadows. Evenings have a distinctly different kind of glow with the sunset now.

We’re ready for all things apple. We’ve already been grating apples into yogurt in the mornings and eating slices with cheese and crackers as the perfect afternoon snack. Soon our annual weekend apple butter making session will occur, so we can relish in those jars of reddish chocolate gold for the months ahead when your season has long past, but we can still taste it, savoured over oatmeal on a cold winter morning.

We’re ready for the Fall break you bring at the end of this month and the chance to slow down for just a bit. As well as all the Halloween movie watching, popcorn eating, long stroll taking, museum visiting plans we have.

We’re ready for pumpkins, shaded in all the glorious bejewelled tones of fall. We’re ready for the first hot apple ciders of the season while gobbling up fresh gingersnap cookies alongside and listening to a nice fall jazz album.

We’re ready for all that you hold. There is a magic to one season slipping into the next and we’re not going to miss a moment of it.

{Image FOUND | Pinned HERE}