We've had quite a fun and exciting December!
We've decked the halls
We've been doing LOTS of singing, in the car, around the tree, and a little on stage, too!
Herbie, our Elf on the Shelf, has reported back to Santa EVERY SINGLE NIGHT this season. ( The capital letters are a pat on the back to this awesome Mom who has remembered to assist him EVERY SINGLE NIGHT since Thanksgiving.)
Herbie has baked us snowman cookies, left us coloring pages and ornament crafts, and even made donut snowmen for breakfast one morning! We are really going to miss him when he goes back to the North Pole with Santa.
We had breakfast with Mrs. Claus and Libby actually talked to Santa at the mall one morning!
We sent out our Christmas cards...(and our entry into a holiday family photo contest was not accepted. Apparently it could be considered offensive to some?)
We've made cookies, well...Grandma has been making cookies. We helped with a little bit of decorating and a lot of taste testing!
Maggie has a friend at school who is Jewish, so she has been teaching us what she has learned about Hanukkah. It seemed like the most appealing tradition is getting a present every day. Grandma and GB thought a new tradition would be fun, and hence, Chenekah was born.
I have always been a fan of opening gifts as they arrive, so this sounded alright to me. Daddy, however, does not even open birthday cards until his actual birthday! He's coming around on the Chenekah celebrating, though....he made GB this sign.
We've been to at least 3 parades in the last month and attempted a "snow" festival (when it was 60 degrees out and 500 children were in line to sled down a hill about as big as the one on Rice Avenue I slid down when I was 5 years old.) It's been a great holiday season so far, and we're looking forward to our visit with Santa and going over the rivers and through some rain to Gamma's house!
