Day 14: Light Your Fire
Remember how I said that I like things to be beautiful? Well, candles always take something that could be plain and make it extraordinary. It's one of those little touches that makes things feel special. I come by my love for candlelight naturally--my mom loves it too. Actually, when we moved to Oregon and were unpacking her candles and then my candles, it was a little embarrassing to take up a couple of cupboards just with candles. Votives, pillars, tapers, tea lights and their assorted holders filled the space. In fact just recently while unpacking a few of the boxes we had never quite gotten around to, I found even more candles.
So, not only did we make a pact to not buy any more candles until we had used what we had (someday I'll tell you more about those pacts my mom and I make), but we also started burning them--which we used to do all the time, but something about the Oregon air changed us and we stopped--for awhile. Now we're back. And since I remember that we have so many, I don't mind having a candlelight dinner every night, even if it is just taco night. I also don't mind having a candlelight breakfast--it kind of goes with my china teacup.
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