Saturday, January 3, 2026

Getting Our Christmas Tree

I know it's January. 

And this happened in November, the day after Thanksgiving. 

But I just need these pictures on the blog :) 











 



Christmas Cookies

This year Anna took a Christmas cookie decorating class with a friend and when it was time to decorate our sugar cookies this year she was a pro! I love how they turned out!!!



 

A Visit to Stockbridge, MA

Piles of snow

Crisp cold air

Sunshine

A whole day with my family

Lunch at the Red Lion Inn

Perfection!

Here's a visit from 2024 

Here we are in 2022

We stayed over at the Inn in 2019

Stopped first for tea because it was only 22 out!



Lots of snow everywhere! 



Charming Main Street 






We had to have the iconic picture in front of the 1700s Red Lion Inn! 




Inside still takes my breath away... 




And we had a lovely lunch. 



Then we meandered through shops and just talked and talked. With only 3 days left of our Christmas break we loved our fun family together day. 



Christmas Getaway

We traveled to Millerton, NY.

It's a charming town with lots of great shops, restaurants, and charm charm charm {oh! and an antique store!) 

We loved

💗lunch at the Inn with a table right next to the fireplace ~ oh so cozy

💗candy shop with the best hot chocolate in the world made from their own chocolate

💗the creaky floor amazing bookstore

💗Harney and Sons store

💗all of the other little shops

💗Salisbury (on the way home) general store

It was on Sunday... with only Monday and  Tuesday for school and then Christmas was beginning. On this day trip it was so close that I could just cry for the magic of it all. 

I don't have many pictures but here are a few: 

The girls learned about this Christmas Getaway by reaching in their stockings and reading these little notes. 





We stopped in Riverton, CT on the way and went to a little bakery for treats for later. 
We've been to Riverton so many times. And we have so many happy memories there. 







The general store is so wonderful. 



And then we arrived in Millerton and started with lunch at the Inn. 

A picture from our table. 







And then on to bundle up and shop! 





Other posts you might like from other Getaway Weekends: 

2023

Nantucket 2022

There is the link to 2019 "A 1773 Christmas Getaway Weekend" 

Here is a link to a look back at all of them. Read this one because it tells all about how it came to be all those years ago... 

Here's 2018

2017 and here

2016 and here 

2015  and here and here 

2014 (This one tells the whole story of them too) 

2013

2012

2011