Cozy and comfortable

At Chatterbox's recent well-check, the doctor asked her a few questions to test her ability to comprehend and verbalize abstract concepts. Being shy, she answered the first two questions with simple responses.

Where is your mom when she is tired? "In bed." What does your dad do when he is hungry? "Eats." When the third question came, though, she replied quickly and with enthusiasm. She knew the answer to this one. What do you do when you're cold? asked the doctor. Her eyes lit up and she wrapped her arms around herself and smiled as if imagining it: "I snuggle up with my cozy blanket." I suppressed a chuckle. I know just where my little one gets her affinity for coziness and comfort: from me.

Here are a few things that make me feel cozy--

• sipping and savoring a mug of hot chocolate
• the spicy scent of a wood burning fire in the fireplace and the sound of it crackling (we have one in our house this year and are enjoying it immensely)
  
• enveloping myself in a massive flannel quilt
• cuddling with my sweetheart
• wearing an oversized hooded sweatshirt and fuzzy socks
• holding my girlies on my lap and reading books
• sitting in the darkness with a lit Christmas tree and James Taylor or Sarah McLachlin's Christmas albums playing
  
• snuggling with a new baby. I need one!!