It's Christmas morning: Alida is tearing around the house playing with a group of imaginary friends and trying to patiently wait for the rest of the family to be ready to finish opening stockings. Kali and Jason are out moving the ducks and giving them a little Christmas morning treat of wheat grass. I'm bustling around getting nutty sweet potato waffles and sauteed kale underway, getting a little laundry done, and packing for a holiday trip to the Benner homestead in PA! It will be our last family trip for awhile so we are going to try to savor it!
Ready or not, the next thing on the major projects list is to remodel our bathroom!! We've been moving things around, emptying out the bathroom and rearranging the one wall in the kitchen to prepare for the demolition phase, which will begin just as soon as we return from our trip. We are getting used to our toilet being in the back kitchen and we have taken our last showers in our old bathroom - something I don't think any of us feel particularly sentimental about! It's another one of many times in which we feel pleased about using a compost toilet - it would be much harder to move a water toilet into our back kitchen!
I've been very grateful for the additional storage afforded to us by the finished bed project! Some bathroom supplies have already taken up temporary residence in the drawers of the bed. It was lovely to see completion of a project we have dreamed about for a number of years now. As always, Jason has done a fabulous job of designing something that is beautiful, functional, comfortable and will last for a long, long time! We hope to set it up for a queen mattress when we can swing that purchase, but for now (again, designed fancily to accommodate either) it is holding our old double box spring and mattress (making it just a little too high for Alida to climb into herself, but a lot of fun for her to try).
Lastly, it feels worth noting that for our Christmas Eve dinner last evening (at Kali's request) we had navajo fry bread tacos with fresh spinach and lettuce picked from our garden. The fry bread was also made with fresh ground cornmeal and rye flour (remember, we are out of any wheat flour so I'm getting more and more creative by the day). They were a hit! But even more than the tacos, Alida enjoyed diving into her finished pink sauerkraut. It tasted a whole lot like the batch made with green cabbage that she consistently said "yuck" to when we offered to serve her some. 
We ended our evening snuggled up together watching a very sweet feel-good movie that we got for Kali for Christmas (Because of Winn-Dixie). Now off to down a shot of wheat grass juice, finish Christmas brunch and then to get the car packed so we can head north!!
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