#MicroblogMondays: Small pleasures

• Spending time with family this past weekend:  with Older Nephew's dog on Friday afternoon :)  with BIL & SIL at the mall later that day;  and with Younger Nephew & his wife (as well as BIL & SIL again) on Saturday. 
• Mailing my Christmas cards last Tuesday, and getting our first Christmas card in the mail on Thursday. 
• The pretty lights on our decorated Christmas tree, and on all the houses in the nearby neighbourhood. 
• Feeling like I actually have a good handle on my Christmas shopping this year! 
• Getting absorbed in Michelle Obama's great new memoir. 
• Seeing dh absorbed in reading "Killers of the Flower Moon, which was one of the best books I read last year (review here).  
• Looking forward to lunch with friends downtown next week. 
• Counting down a dwindling number of days until we head west to see my family (and until Christmas!).  :) 

You can find more of this week's #MicroblogMondays posts here.