Happy New Year!

I don’t know if it’s because Christmas and New Year’s landed on weekends, but for some reason I feel like 2012 snuck up on me. These pictures are the views I woke up to on January 1st after a quiet night in Merida. Our vacation is still in full effect, but I wanted to share this beautiful blue sky before I get sucked back into normal life.

By the way, I committed the ultimate photography mistake and forgot my camera charger, so these pictures are courtesy of my iPod.

I absolutely love the holidays! Not just the holidays, I think I’m infatuated with the whole season of fall and most of winter. I don’t know if it’s because the majority of people are in a festive mood or if it’s some subconscious childhood memory. Either way, I find a lot to be happy about during this time of year.

This year has been filled with ups and downs and all arounds. I’ve decided to take a little sabbatical (the month of December) from blogging so I can have just one thing fewer on my plate. It’s strange that even though this is the first time I’m doing this after 3 years of blogging, I feel a twinge of guilt. In a way it’s good because it’ll motivate me to make it up to y’all when I start again in January

In the meantime, you can (re)discover my top viewed posts of all time:

Is forgiveness overrated?, Haitian Squash Soup, and Looking for fashion don’ts in Caracas – Part One.

I wish you and yours the happiest of holidays (Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, and Happy Kwanzaa)!!! See you in 2012!

Loving is not just looking at each other, it’s looking in the same direction.

~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, 1939

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in.  A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.  ~Bill Vaughan

Whichever one you are, I hope that this new year is only better than the last!!!

Wishing you peace, love, and joy this holiday season…

      – Déborah