the blue blog archives: santa rocks!

Santa came a little early to our house, bringing us a new cedar chest! Now all my hand-knitted (and favorite store-bought) sweaters can live at the foot of the bed surrounded by cedar.

Luckies! We don't have much closet space (heck, no one in Boston does), so my sweaters were stuffed in the back of various closets just waiting to be found by moths. And others were hanging on hangers (say it isn't so!) because there simply wasn't any more horizontal space left. But now they are happy.

My boys are happy too. The cedar chest came in a big ol' box that screamed to be made into a playhouse for them. Here they are going in and out a little door and here they're using a window.

posted by alison at 12:16 am | in a christmas story

Comments

Those photos of the boys playing in the box are priceless! We've got some video camera footage of Brooke playing in an empty box when she was about 18 months old, it kept her quiet for AGES. What is it about kids and empty boxes?

Posted by: kerrie at December 16, 2003 5:06 AM

When I was little, I had a book about a boy who had a box and a piece of rope and used them to go on all sorts of imaginary adventures. I wanted to have a big box like that. Now, I would like to have a big book like your cedar chest.

Posted by: michelle at December 16, 2003 7:34 AM

Awesome chest! No one has much closet space here in Alexandria, VA. Those darn old houses! ;) So we bought an armoire for the husband recently, and turned his closet (narrow and shallow!) into a shelf heaven for sweaters!

Kids always seem to love boxes! The fab imagination they have!

Posted by: Kristine at December 16, 2003 9:48 AM

My mother bought me a cedar chest for high school graduation. It is one of those gifts you treasure forever. If I keep knitting sweaters, though, I'm going to need ten more. ;) Yay for Santa coming early! I'm all for that! :)

Posted by: Kerstin at December 16, 2003 10:21 AM

I remember the boxes like that at my daycare, if you were good, you got to have nap time in one!

Posted by: Amber at December 16, 2003 10:21 AM

Cute guys! Never mind the closet space. What about those outrageous house prices? We may be moving to the area. I knew prices were high but...

Posted by: Cyndy at December 16, 2003 10:28 AM

That cedar chest is lovely [yay, Santa!], but what I *really* love is the photo of your boys playing in that box. Awwwwwwwwwww!

Posted by: Becky at December 16, 2003 10:52 AM

Alison, great box. I hear you about the end of nap time. It now takes Cate 1.5 hours from the time we get into her room till she starts snoring and then the nap only lasts 45 minutes. That is when we get one at all. Naps aren't for the babies, their for the mommies! I look back longingly on the two nap a day period, where I had long stretches of knitting, shower and eating time.

Posted by: Amy at December 16, 2003 11:33 AM

i have cedar closet that needs to be brought to my apartment....it is a beautiful piece of furniture that has been in my family for years.

and as for playing in boxes, when i was a little girl, the most favorite toy on the block was an empty refrigerator box. we would make a clubhouse in it and adorn it with drawings inside and out!! long live the box clubhouse!!

hope the hand is feeling better.

Posted by: elisabeth at December 16, 2003 2:58 PM

Cyndy, Massachussetts has either the second or third highest housing prices in the country, believe it or not. Good luck house hunting!

Amy, I feel for you. Glad to hear that I'm not alone. :)

Elizabeth, my hand is all better now. It wasn't a knitting injury at all, just a big bruise from my boisterous boys!

Posted by: alison at December 16, 2003 6:47 PM

Beautiful cedar chest.
Even more beautiful boys - great pictures of them having fun.
I want a daily nap. ! :0)

Posted by: Emma at December 16, 2003 7:25 PM

Lucky you! (I feel your pain -- we don't have ANY closets OR CUPBOARDS in our apartment in Taipei. None. Can you believe it? Not even in the kitchen.)

Big boxes are the best! Your boys are so cute.

Posted by: other alison at December 16, 2003 9:42 PM

What a lovely chest! Finally, your beautiful sweaters get the resting place they deserve. Looks like the boys are keeping you busy. I hear you on the knitting brownout. Things are slowing down here b/c of lots of work related travel but I did manage to finish two gifts over the weekend.

Posted by: Sara at December 17, 2003 8:18 AM