Working on Christmas day was really very pleasant. We saw fewer patients this year than in the previous ten. I answered a lot of phone calls in the early morning but it tapered off towards the afternoon. The two NPs who I worked with are old friends and the pediatrician who came from another center was independent and charming. The next holiday I have to work is MLK Day, and that is usually the busiest clinical day of the year.
Today we went to Concord to poke around the little antique stores there. JS loves the vintage stuff and there is one store in particular, "Nesting on Main", that has great old stuff. The last thing I need is more clutter, but yes, I bought myself the ceramic doll whose body is made of muslin in the above photo and also, I must confess, a small glass doggie. The doll came with no clothes, and her cloth body was rather stained. I cleaned her off with bleach and immediately made a little shift for her to wear while I design something fancier for her. I did give her a little feather boa in the meantime.
NB was commenting on our interest in crafts and I told her that it is always a running subtext for me. I can be busy with work on one level, and also planning the things I want to create. It's a fun preoccupation. For lunch we ate in a small pizza place in Concord where there were workmen sitting and speaking Portuguese which I recognized instantly. We wished that Pablo could have been there to hear his native tongue.
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