Hi, I'm Annie.
Mother of 3,
spouse to G,
writer of things,
former batgirl,
sister,
daughter,
lucky friend,
and American
living in Australia.
Basic Joy = my attempt to document all of this life stuff, stubbornly looking for the joy in dailiness.
A few posts to get you started:
Marriage
Passing the bridge of sighs
A modest proposal
+ modest proposal part 2
Adeste fideles
Life
Uncurbed enthusiasm
Liner notes to growing up
Sunday dinner @ 135
Playing big
In praise of late bloomers
Parenting
Triptych
Bless her heart
+paging EB White
+waiting room
Nine and a half
Madeleine, 16
Keystone parents
She holds these truths
Louie, Louie
Just a collection of images that bring out the happy & hygge in me.
More at my tumblr, Gather
and at my Pinterest pinboards
Reader Comments (6)
Happy St. Lucia day to you, too, Annie! We had dinner a week ago or so at the home of some friends, one of whom is a Lutheran pastor, and they had a bunch of Carl Larsson stuff that made me think fondly about growing up with those good old scandinavian traditions.
Love that idea. How fun.
I hadn't heard of St Lucia Day so I googled it to find out. It was interesting to read the history of it. Any tradition which involves danish pastries, hot cocoa and buttered toast in bed sounds worth starting to celebrate next year!!
Lindsay
Traditions are my favorite things! I love learning and reading about what other families do.
It warms my heart to see Lauren as St. Lucia. How wonderful that you are carrying on that tradition. And real Danish pastries. Well, that is just wunderbar! (German, 'cause I don't know the Danish for wonderful).
Love you!
I too, love, love, love different traditions. St. Lucia is Swedish, no? We could have actually legitimately done! I missed out, where was blogging when my kids were young?