feeling thankful at the hotel

hello there!  hope you had a fabulous thanksgiving filled with lotsa food, fun and family!  we had a wonderful feast (diet starts tomorrow) and the tiramisu enjoyed her first real thanksgiving meal of turkey, stuffing, yams and her ultimate favorite...cranberry sauce!  she's developing quite a palate and pretty much loves food in general, especially fruits and veggies.  that's my girl.

we've been living in our new home, "the hotel," for just over two weeks now.  i fondly call it "the hotel" because it totally feels like one beginning with the fancy water fountains in the porte cochere, immaculate lobby, quiet hallways, taking an elevator to our unit high in the sky, and the fact that there's hardly any ceiling lighting in the unit (money-saving measure on the part of the building contractor) so the unit is kinda dark if we don't turn on all the torchere lamps we ended up purchasing.  i'm still working on accepting the design limitations (challenges?) we have here.  i have all my oil paintings that i want to hang but we only have a few drywall walls so the artwork isn't evenly distributed in the house.  and our furniture layout isn't optimal. and all our walls are off-white.  i have to consciously remind myself that this is temporary and before we know it, we'll be moving again to our new home!  on the plus side, we have a KILLER view (will post pics later this week) and more space than we would be able to get anywhere else in a condo.  and the walkability factor rocks! we are so close to aloha tower, ward center, and ala moana and have been walking everywhere with the kiddies. 

i just looooove this time of the year!  i've been listening to christmas music for a few weeks now and am so happy that the weather has gotten so much colder around here! i've been on the hunt for the perfect noble fir christmas tree and am hoping it arrives in tomorrow's container at Richard Tajiri's Christmas Hawaii lot.  

more tomorrow...ta-ta for now!