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The holidays were full of all the wonderful holiday things you'd expect, cookies, parties, gifts, waking up at ungodly late hours, ham, rummikub & yahtzee, good wine, lots of reading, and most importantly family.

Besides an annual sleepover with our nephew and niece, we also tagged along on a couple delightful and festive adventures with them...

Zoo Lights at Lincoln Park Zoo (yes, quite cold out as their faces tell all)

& Ice Skating in Millennium Park

And on other fronts I did indeed finish the mittens for my niece and forged right ahead into a pair of cozy alpaca socks for me (so selfish).