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: 

2024

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

Capturing Autumn

Saturday was just so gorgeous - sunny, chilly, and peak leaf color where we live - so we just had to get out, drive those curvy country roads past farm stands filled with pumpkins, and just be in that goodness!

We've taken leaf drives every year. Here are just a few I linked: 

This one stands out the most to me because I had us all matching and wanted to get some family pictures that year. My girls were just so adorable then! (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4)

This is the same town we visited in 2016... Riverton  

Oh I was such a good photographer back then... it actually really inspires me to get out there and work my camera more! 

More fall goodness: 

2013

2017

2018

2018

2019

2019

2019

2019

2020

2020

2022

There have actually been so many other leaf fall drives since then. 

This year it was just Scott and I. Abigail is a freshman away at college and Anna was busy with grad school work and decided to stay home. 

Just the drive is music to my ears. 

But lovely little main street towns are charming too and especially wonderful to visit in the fall. 

In some of those links (above) you can see us at the Riverton General Store. It's a great place to visit! 

Scott and I bought a cranberry walnut sourdough muffin to split at this adorable bakery "Orchard Hill" 

We walked through Peoples State Forest as we have many times before sharing our treat. 

And then I filled a basket of pine cones. I plan on spraying the tips gold for the Christmas season. I think they will look lovely in a basket or a bowl. 

And then we drove home - simple, lovely, perfect afternoon 🧡

Fall Home Tour ~ Our Dining Room

It's time to start my fall home tour.  🍂 I'm going to show you just our dining room today and other rooms as I take pictures. This was the first room I decorated for this season mostly because I love all of the sweet, warm, natural wood in this room. It waits for autumn all year long. 

We bought this Hitchcock set years ago from someone that restores them. I've talked about Hitchcock so much on this blog. 

Here's a post of the town that housed the factory all those years ago when it first started. 

Here's a post from 2017 when we bought it. 

The Hitchcock furniture company opened in 1818 in Riverton, Connecticut - then called Hitchcockville, Conn. It was the fancy chair crazy in the 1800's. Now all antiques and quite sought after pieces. I love the history of these pieces. I love that they were made right her in Connecticut. I love that for this New Englander, they are perfect for our home. 

So when fall rolls around, it gives me a chance to just enjoy these beautiful pieces again. 

And because I love the furniture oh so much I don't want it all overwhelmed with too much in that room as far as decorations. So I've kept it simple and sweet. 

Another very special part of that room is our wedding china we picked out when we were 21 years old, registered for it and opened it all after our wedding. I knew way back then what I loved. Still do. It 'matches' this room, the table and everything perfectly. 

These calico pumpkins are perfect in our dining room. I love the colors and how the are a simple touch to the natural colors in this room. 

And oh! The moment I saw this china coffee pot, teapot, creamer, and sugar bowl I knew I couldn't wait to put it in our dining room for the fall. Just look at the golds, the fruit and nuts... I adore it so much! 

Sometimes for the season I like to have the table all set. It gives me something to look forward to -- perhaps a special dinner when Anna comes home for fall break... 

It can sure be a challenge to make this room work for Easter and springtime but my goodness, autumn it's in it's glory! 

Oh one more part! The built in china cabinet is painted blue with another set of dishes I love so much! And pumpkins and those little pies make it adorable!